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, MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f868292008c639ce X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: C vs. Ada - strings Date: 2000/05/04 Message-ID: <8es4gh$3ms$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 619166890 References: <390F0D93.F835FAD9@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <8eons4$sqj4@ftp.kvaerner.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x33.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. X-Article-Creation-Date: Thu May 04 15:21:08 2000 GMT X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.61 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 2000-05-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <8eons4$sqj4@ftp.kvaerner.com>, "Tarjei T. Jensen" wrote: > I'm not too keen on ada strings. I think the problem is that > they do not work the way programmers want them to work. Well that's obviously a bit of a specious statement. The string packages in Ada were designed by programmers who made them work EXACTLY as they wanted them to work. Now different people may have different ideas, but the idea you imply of a string package coming from who-knows-where that is universally at odds with what "programmers" want is silly. What would be more useful is to specifically say what "you" would like to see. Personally, I think the string packages in Ada are far more flexible and useful than those in Turbo Pascal, for many reasons (in particular the lack of control over heap allocation), but it would be interesting to be more specific about what *you* personally don't like, than making general statements with no basis about what all programmers like :-) Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.