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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1cf653444208df72 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-10 08:37:27 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!unlnews.unl.edu!newsfeed.ksu.edu!nntp.ksu.edu!news.okstate.edu!not-for-mail From: David Starner Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ada vs. cpp Date: 10 Oct 2001 14:03:07 GMT Organization: Oklahoma State University Message-ID: <9q1ker$aik1@news.cis.okstate.edu> References: <9pgr68$7pu1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <3bbd6287.346843109@news.cis.dfn.de> <9pkco7$9qe1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <3bc15a16.1317281@news.cis.dfn.de> <9ps9uu$a2g1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <3BC2FD54.69BA446D@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <9pv54d$9aa1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <3bc40a3f.4768875@news.cis.dfn.de> Reply-To: dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org NNTP-Posting-Host: x8b4e5435.dhcp.okstate.edu User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.2 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14162 Date: 2001-10-10T14:03:07+00:00 List-Id: On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:01:01 GMT, Dmitry Kazakov wrote: > 1. If you mean that Ada has no type to represent the whole set of all > integers, yes it is true. [as well as it is for all other languages > designed for finite discrete machines] Many languages - Common Lisp, for one - have integers that can represent the full range of integers, as far as memory will allow. > 4. If your point is that a language *has* all types [all programs, all > whatsoever] one could develop using the language then well, all > languages are more or less equivalent. My point is, that C has those ordered sets of characters we call strings. To slap extra requirements on, and claim it doesn't, isn't conductive to good communication, any more than me claiming Ada doesn't have integers. Algol 60 didn't have strings; C does. -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I saw a daemon stare into my face, and an angel touch my breast; each one softly calls my name . . . the daemon scares me less." - "Disciple", Stuart Davis