From: billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 )
Subject: Re: Ada vs. Scheme
Date: 5 Oct 89 02:04:27 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6679@hubcap.clemson.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: TED.89Oct4142437@aigyptos.nmsu.edu
From ted@nmsu.edu (Ted Dunning):
> in the formal semantics of scheme, the abstract syntax of scheme is
> _6_ lines long. and yet this language has considerably _more_ power
> than ada in many respects.
A Turing machine has an extremely simple set of commands,
but this does not make its command set a useful programming
language. The original Lisp was also quite powerful, but
the lack of type-checking made it less than useful as a
practical tool. Ada is intended to be a superb *production*
programming language; I seriously doubt that Scheme was
designed with that particular objective in mind.
Followups to comp.lang.misc...
Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu
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1989-09-29 1:59 Ada 9X objectives Bill Wolfe
1989-09-30 16:59 ` ryer
1989-10-02 18:00 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-10-02 20:07 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-10-02 23:33 ` Translating 83 => 9X (Was: Re: Ada 9X objectives) Ronald Guilmette
1989-10-03 18:14 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-10-03 20:02 ` Ronald Guilmette
1989-10-05 1:56 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-10-05 20:35 ` John Goodenough
1989-10-06 16:11 ` Ada 9X objectives William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-10-07 1:27 ` Translating 83 => 9X (Was: Re: Ada 9X objectives) Ronald Guilmette
1989-10-08 16:39 ` Translating 83 => 9X William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-10-04 18:08 ` Translating 83 => 9X (Was: ryer
1989-10-05 15:29 ` stt
1989-10-08 17:56 ` Modernizing Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-10-04 13:09 ` Re^2: Ada 9X objectives James E. Cardow
1989-10-04 20:24 ` Ted Dunning
1989-10-05 2:04 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 [this message]
1989-10-06 12:06 ` Norman Diamond
1989-10-06 12:50 ` Robert Munck
1989-10-08 17:07 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-10-10 15:00 ` Robert Munck
1989-10-11 14:47 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-10-11 18:13 ` Dick Dunn
1989-10-11 22:14 ` Question about Ada expressions Perry Schmidt
1989-10-12 10:56 ` STEPHEN D. STRADER
1989-10-12 12:15 ` Robert Firth
1989-10-12 22:07 ` stt
1989-10-13 14:38 ` horst
1989-10-12 1:11 ` Ada 9X objectives William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-10-13 11:05 ` Markku Sakkinen
1989-10-06 19:00 ` Re^2: " Dick Dunn
1989-10-10 3:26 ` James E. Cardow
1989-10-12 5:09 ` Ada 9X objectives and long development cycles Dick Dunn
1989-10-12 18:16 ` Re^2: Ada 9X objectives Robert Eachus
1989-10-02 21:01 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
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