From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d901a50a5adfec3c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,9f0bf354542633fd X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public From: dewarr@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: Fortran or Ada? Date: 1998/09/26 Message-ID: <6uigs3$evu$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 395040828 References: <36068E73.F0398C54@meca.polymtl.ca> <6u8r5o$aa4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <6uenvf$g9a$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x6.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Sat Sep 26 10:49:39 1998 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/2.02 (OS/2; I) Date: 1998-09-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Craig Burley wrote: > I didn't say I *did* know Ada -- in fact, I don't! Perhaps you should learn it :-) > In summary: language designers should try and restrict their use > of narrow lexical distinctions to those areas with which the > expected audience is already very familiar, and, in other areas, > ensure that common typographical errors are most likely to cause > expressions that are immediately discoverable as invalid expressions > in the language. The above paragraph (and the discussion that preceded it) might well be used as a summary of one important part of the Ada design criteria! -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/rg_mkgrp.xp Create Your Own Free Member Forum