From: "Mike Silva" <mjsilva@jps.net>
Subject: Re: Time to join the fold?
Date: 1999/01/25
Date: 1999-01-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <78i8s4$hth$1@its.hooked.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: F5zFII.GrI.0.-s@inmet.camb.inmet.com
I want to thank everybody who has responded to my questions, both here and
in private. Your comments have been quite interesting and helpful. I spent
the weekend perusing "Ada95 for C and C++ Programmers" and "Concurrency in
Ada" (others are also on the way) and my head is naturally swimming. FWIW
here are some of my very early impressions:
- Ada is wordy. Luckily I'm a touch typist <g>. However, I recognize that
I sometimes get myself into trouble in C because it *is* so easy to write a
quick function, and then another, and then... Presumably the Ada
requirement (as I perceive it) to "spell it all out" helps encourage "think
twice, write once" programming.
- Ada is powerful. As I read along I found myself consistently thinking "C
is more versatile here", only to learn on the next page that Ada, perhaps
via one of the libraries, has multiple ways to do it, some of which are more
powerful than the the equivalent C mechanisms. Which leads to
- Ada is big. This is intimidating, but more than that I feel like I've
entered a very large candy store. It appears that there are functions (in
the broad sense), somewhere in the core language or one of the standard
libraries, to do *anything*. I get the sense of a *very* well thought out
and self-contained universe. The concurrency facilities, to choose just one
example out of many, seem quite exciting.
Now for another question. Some people have mentioned getting into the Ada
"mind-set". What are the main components of this mind-set? What, IOW,
should I pay special attention to in order to avoid simply writing "C in
Ada" (whatever that might mean). Thanks again for the help.
Mike Silva
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-22 0:00 Time to join the fold? Mike Silva
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Mike Silva [this message]
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1999-01-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-01-25 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-31 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Dynamicly declaring arrays (was: Time to join the fold?) dennison
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-02 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-02-02 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-03 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-04 0:00 ` M2 history - relations to Ada news.oxy.com
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Chuck Clark
1999-02-10 0:00 ` Andreas Borchert
1999-02-04 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-02-04 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-02-04 0:00 ` G.S. Vigneault
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Grant Edwards
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Aron Felix Gurski
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Lanziner-Furtenbach
1999-02-04 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Lanziner-Furtenbach
1999-02-04 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02 0:00 ` Dynamicly declaring arrays (was: Time to join the fold?) nabbasi
1999-02-02 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-02 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-02-02 0:00 ` William Clodius
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Modula 2 William Clodius
1999-02-02 0:00 ` Dynamicly declaring arrays (was: Time to join the fold?) dennison
1999-02-02 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-26 0:00 ` Time to join the fold? Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-01-26 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-26 0:00 ` Pascal MALAISE
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Steve Whalen
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Steve Whalen
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Steve Whalen
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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