From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Printing Enum Variable Re: Linux World
Date: 1999/03/08
Date: 1999-03-08T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7c0knr$v5$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7bva62$kgm$1@remarQ.com
In article <7bva62$kgm$1@remarQ.com>,
"Michael Young" <nobody@all.org> wrote:
> I agree wholeheartedly that C encourages certain poor
> programming practices. However, Ada is not the only
> solution to these problem. I hear in your postings: "Ada
> is better than C; C++ supports features and practices we
> recognize as evil in C; therefore, C++ is bad. OTOH, Ada
> rejects all of C; therefore Ada is good." That's pretty
> convoluted, don't you think?
Indeed that is a convoluted argument, and that is probably
why no one has made such a silly argument, or taken such
a silly position.
In fact Ada fully allows a low-level form of expression
corresponding to C. Indeed in some respects it goes much
further than C (bit packed arrays, full control over data
representation, full address arithmetic, ...) Sure Ada
tends to discourage casual use of such features by making
them explicit in the program, but it is hard to argue
against that choice if your aim is to make programs
readable and maintainable.
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1999-03-02 0:00 Linux World Richard D Riehle
1999-03-02 0:00 ` fraser
1999-03-02 0:00 ` Printing Enum Variable " David Starner
1999-03-03 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-03 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-03 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-03-03 0:00 ` Fraser Wilson
1999-03-03 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Magnus Larsson
1999-03-03 0:00 ` Hans Marqvardsen
1999-03-04 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Hans Marqvardsen
1999-03-05 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-05 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-05 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-03-05 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Hans Marqvardsen
1999-03-05 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-07 0:00 ` Hans Marqvardsen
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-03 0:00 ` Printing Enum Variable Re: Linux World (Correction) Hans Marqvardsen
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Printing Enum Variable Re: Linux World fraser
1999-03-05 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-05 0:00 ` fraser
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-04 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-03 0:00 ` fraser
1999-03-03 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-03-03 0:00 ` fraser
1999-03-03 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-03-04 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-03 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-03-05 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-03-05 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-03-07 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-03-07 0:00 ` Michael Young
1999-03-07 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-08 0:00 ` Michael Young
1999-03-08 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-07 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-07 0:00 ` Michael Young
1999-03-08 0:00 ` robert_dewar [this message]
1999-03-08 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-09 0:00 ` Michael Young
1999-03-09 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-09 0:00 ` Michael Young
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-03-09 0:00 ` billy
1999-03-10 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-03-10 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-10 0:00 ` bob
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-10 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
[not found] ` <7 <7c58qa$b6b$1@cf01.edf.fr>
1999-03-10 0:00 ` fraser
[not found] ` <7c4ru6$e45$1@remarq.com>
1999-03-10 0:00 ` fraser
[not found] ` <1999Mar9.131659. <dale-1003991644340001@r1021c-07.ppp.cs.rmit.edu.au>
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-08 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-03-08 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-08 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-04 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-03-05 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-05 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-06 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-03-06 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-06 0:00 ` Dave Taylor
1999-03-06 0:00 ` Bruce or Tracy
1999-03-06 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-03-04 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
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