From: furlos@alumni.rpi.edu (Steve Furlong)
Subject: Ada's complexity
Date: 1998/02/19
Date: 1998-02-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6cgk8s$2on2@alumni.rpi.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.887723305@merv
In article <dewar.887723305@merv>, Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>As for richness leading to complexity, that's misleading. For example, the
>exception facility of Ada definitelty makes the language more complex from
>the point of view of bothg implementation and definition, but it makes
>*using* Ada to solve a problem that requires exception handling simpler,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>and it is this kind of sinmplicitly that is most important to programmers.
Which would be, what, all programs?
Ta,
Steve Furlong
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1998-02-15 0:00 Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Ralph Paul
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-19 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1998-02-20 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-03-05 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-18 0:00 ` vonhend
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Dan Moran
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-18 0:00 ` Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-19 0:00 ` John English
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Luis Espinal
1998-02-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-23 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-24 0:00 ` Jonas Nygren
1998-02-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-25 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1998-02-25 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-20 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-02-20 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1998-03-03 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-03-03 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1998-02-19 0:00 ` Steve Furlong [this message]
1998-02-20 0:00 ` Ada's complexity Markus Kuhn
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement Jon S Anthony
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1998-02-19 0:00 ` Parsing Ada and C++ Steve Furlong
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement nabbasi
1998-02-16 0:00 ` Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-16 0:00 ` nabbasi
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