Re: Ada self-referential operators

[tgc102@minster.york.ac.uk (Thomas G. Coles (1W0))]

On 23 Feb 95 11:45:33 CST, Brian Hanson (brh@cray.com) wrote:
: In article e64@gnat.cs.nyu.edu, dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
: >but this needs to be balanced by a concern for keeping the language simple.
:                                                                      ^^^^^^^
: Not quite the word I would use to describe Ada.  Uniform, Consistant may be
: better but NOT simple.

I may not be the best judge, but I wouldn't dispute the use of `simple' to
describe Ada.  Perhaps I'm not tackling quite such difficult problems, but it
seems pretty reasonable to me.

What WOULD you consider a simple language, Brian? (Chap sitting next to me
says `English' !)

Thomas

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