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From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
Subject: Re: Ada.Strings.Bounded
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:12:24 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2008-04-23T08:12:24-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <62dde2ab-d6ad-454b-aa87-8dbc23855903@v23g2000pro.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 480f1298$0$6782$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net

On Apr 23, 3:42 am, Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauh...@futureapps.de>
wrote:

> Without of course knowing why the choices were made the
> way they were made for the LRM, my conclusion is that
> many programmers still prefer high school ideas about
> numbers over the theory of computer numbers.

Nahhh, we just want to write programs that work, and have a language
that helps prevent us from making stupid errors, but without forcing
us to waste time writing needless junk in order to have things fit
more consistently into some "theory".  Remember, "theory" is our
servant, not our master.

                                -- Adam




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-23 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 108+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-31 22:44 Untyped Ada? Phaedrus
2008-04-01  0:16 ` Randy Brukardt
2008-04-01  7:19 ` tmoran
2008-04-01  7:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-01  8:28 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2008-04-01 21:44   ` Phaedrus
2008-04-01 21:51     ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-04-01 17:09 ` Pascal Obry
2008-04-01 22:00   ` Phaedrus
2008-04-02  7:31     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-04 15:16     ` Graham
2008-04-04 16:10       ` Pascal Obry
2008-04-04 21:09         ` Ada.Bounded_Strings Adam Beneschan
2008-04-04 21:15           ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Adam Beneschan
2008-04-05  4:39             ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Gautier
2008-04-05  9:43               ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Pascal Obry
2008-04-05 10:10                 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-05 11:36                 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Gautier
2008-04-05 12:14                   ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Pascal Obry
2008-04-06  0:31                     ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Randy Brukardt
2008-04-07 14:57                       ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Adam Beneschan
2008-04-07 15:23                         ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-07 16:34                         ` Ada.Strings.Bounded stefan-lucks
2008-04-07 17:34                           ` Ada.Strings.Bounded (see below)
2008-04-12 18:50                 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-12 19:46                   ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Georg Bauhaus
2008-04-13 16:53                     ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-13 20:10                       ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Robert A Duff
2008-04-13 23:52                         ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-14  8:00                           ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-14 15:25                             ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-14 18:36                               ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-15  1:39                                 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-12 21:09                   ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-13 16:31                     ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-13 20:02                       ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Robert A Duff
2008-04-13 23:20                         ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-14  9:07                           ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-14 15:50                             ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-14 18:52                               ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-15  2:07                                 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-15  8:02                                   ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-15 14:20                                     ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-15 15:23                                       ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-16  2:51                                         ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-16  8:00                                           ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
     [not found]                                     ` <bc3a8b4e-63fe-47a6-b10b-7056f6d7d586@w5g2000prd.googlegroups.com>
2008-04-15 14:58                                       ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-16  2:46                                         ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-16  8:16                                           ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-16 14:40                                             ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-16 18:28                                               ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-21  0:44                                                 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-21 14:08                                                   ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Robert A Duff
2008-04-21 16:35                                                     ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-21 18:04                                                       ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Robert A Duff
2008-04-22  0:19                                                         ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-22  0:49                                                           ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Adam Beneschan
2008-04-22  1:02                                                             ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Adam Beneschan
2008-04-22 15:30                                                               ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-22 16:08                                                                 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Robert A Duff
2008-04-22 15:25                                                             ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-22 15:54                                                               ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Robert A Duff
2008-04-22 15:41                                                           ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Robert A Duff
2008-04-22 17:49                                                             ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-22 18:26                                                               ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Samuel Tardieu
2008-04-22 18:59                                                                 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-22 18:47                                                             ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-22 19:19                                                               ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-22 19:41                                                               ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Robert A Duff
2008-04-22 22:55                                                                 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-23  6:40                                                                   ` Ada.Strings.Bounded christoph.grein
2008-04-23  6:54                                                                     ` Ada.Strings.Bounded christoph.grein
2008-04-23 10:42                                                                 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Georg Bauhaus
2008-04-23 12:32                                                                   ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-23 12:52                                                                   ` Ada.Strings.Bounded christoph.grein
2008-04-23 13:34                                                                     ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Georg Bauhaus
2008-04-23 15:12                                                                   ` Adam Beneschan [this message]
2008-04-23 15:36                                                                     ` Ada.Strings.Bounded (see below)
2008-04-23 17:09                                                                     ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Ray Blaak
2008-04-24  0:29                                                                   ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Randy Brukardt
2008-04-22 20:15                                                               ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Adam Beneschan
2008-04-23 13:14                                                                 ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Peter Hermann
2008-04-23 14:40                                                                   ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-23 15:03                                                                     ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Adam Beneschan
2008-04-22 19:56                                                             ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Adam Beneschan
2008-04-21 18:50                                                       ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-22  0:31                                                         ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-14 15:11                   ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Adam Beneschan
2008-04-14 16:09                     ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-14 18:13                       ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Georg Bauhaus
2008-04-15  1:35                         ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-15 20:33                           ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Georg Bauhaus
2008-04-16  3:11                             ` Ada.Strings.Bounded Eric Hughes
2008-04-04 23:35           ` Ada.Bounded_Strings Robert A Duff
2008-04-05  1:46             ` Ada.Bounded_Strings Adam Beneschan
2008-04-05  4:55               ` Ada.Bounded_Strings Randy Brukardt
2008-04-05  7:30                 ` Ada.Bounded_Strings Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-06  0:44                   ` Ada.Bounded_Strings Randy Brukardt
2008-04-04 16:18       ` Untyped Ada? Adam Beneschan
2008-04-04 16:32       ` DScott
2008-04-04 17:38       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-04 18:52         ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-04-05  8:07           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-04 19:14         ` Graham
2008-04-04 21:06           ` tmoran
2008-04-05  8:44           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-04-12 16:50       ` Eric Hughes
2008-04-04 18:02     ` adaworks
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