From: Richard D Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Is an RTOS Required for Ada?
Date: 1999/05/28
Date: 1999-05-28T16:25:42-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7in1km$90v@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7imvsr$5bg$1@nnrp1.deja.com
In article <7imvsr$5bg$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
>In article <374EC6EA.61519FAF@praxis-cs.co.uk>,
> Rod Chapman <rod@praxis-cs.co.uk> wrote:
>> Robert Dewar wrote:
>> >
>> My normal rule-of-thumb is "no surprises"
>
>I don't think we can write into a standard that the code must
>not surprise Rod Chapman :-)
>
Somebody once suggested including a DWIM function in every
language. Each potentially surprising construct could be
be coerced by the DWIM function. DWIM is an acronym
for "Do what I mean!".
Richard Riehle
richard@adaworks.com
http://www.adaworks.com
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-05-13 0:00 Is an RTOS Required for Ada? Tramse
1999-05-13 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-13 0:00 ` Rakesh Malhotra
1999-05-14 0:00 ` Tramse
1999-05-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-19 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-05-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-25 0:00 ` George Romanski
1999-05-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-26 0:00 ` George Romanski
1999-05-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-28 0:00 ` Rod Chapman
1999-05-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-28 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle [this message]
1999-05-28 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-05-20 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-05-20 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-05-20 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-05-20 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-05-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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