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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d6b7962983742b0d,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)" Subject: "C" is better than Ada because of access to separate subprograms Date: 1996/07/12 Message-ID: <9607121229.AA03818@most>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 168054804 sender: Ada programming language comments: To: info-ada%listserv.nodak.edu@emcee.com mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-07-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Let's tie up a couple of loose threads and get on to other tasking: > ... Jon declared that real programs have no nesting anyway, and ... > [so] all this business about closures is irrelevant nonsense 1. Real programs are written by real programmers [self-evident] 2. Real programmers program in C [ Quitt 1996 ] 3. C does not allow nesting 4. Therefore real programs have no nesting and Jon is vindicated. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- W. Wesley Groleau (Wes) Office: 219-429-4923 Magnavox - Mail Stop 10-40 Home: 219-471-7206 Fort Wayne, IN 46808 elm (Unix): wwgrol@pseserv3.fw.hac.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------