From: Robert*@ <Robert_member@newsguy.com>
Subject: Re: "Size" of Ada vs. C++
Date: 16 Oct 2001 01:53:04 -0700
Date: 2001-10-16T01:53:04-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9qgshg01tdp@drn.newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87y9mcoz6s.fsf@deneb.enyo.de
In article <87y9mcoz6s.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>, Florian says...
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>Anyway, I think it's rather strange to judge a language by the "size"
>of its definition.
I always thought this is funny. I read that M3 designers aimed for 50
pages, but they had to settle for 60 pages.
Give me any language specification manual, the Ada RM for example, and
I can print it using half the number of pages, making the language half
as big in an instance.
I'll simply use smaller fonts, reduce the margine size, print it
on 11x17 in paper, use small words instead of big ones, and explain
things in more terse sentences. So, why do people measuer how big
a language by the number of pages that makes up the language reference?
Also, size is not everything you know.
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2001-10-14 2:49 ` Try J# ( was Re: J# is there ) Israel Raj T
2001-10-14 4:39 ` Dale Stanbrough
2001-10-14 5:23 ` Language design by by committee ( was Re: Try J# ( was Re: J# is there )) Israel Raj T
2001-10-14 5:50 ` Dale Stanbrough
2001-10-14 6:12 ` Israel Raj T
2001-10-14 7:23 ` Dale Stanbrough
2001-10-14 10:00 ` Israel Raj T
2001-10-14 10:34 ` Dale Stanbrough
2001-10-14 6:37 ` Israel Raj T
2001-10-14 7:18 ` Dale Stanbrough
2001-10-14 17:27 ` Mike Silva
2001-10-21 7:12 ` mike
2001-10-15 13:53 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-15 21:19 ` Florian Weimer
2001-10-15 21:43 ` "Size" of Ada vs. C++ Ted Dennison
2001-10-16 6:51 ` Florian Weimer
2001-10-16 8:53 ` Robert* [this message]
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2001-10-16 15:23 ` Sice of C++ vs Ada Marin David Condic
2001-10-17 5:39 ` "Size" of Ada vs. C++ Richard Riehle
2001-10-16 14:07 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-15 22:27 ` Language design by by committee ( was Re: Try J# ( was Re: J# is there )) minyard
2001-10-16 7:00 ` Florian Weimer
2001-10-16 7:01 ` "Size" of Ada vs. C++ " Florian Weimer
2001-10-16 15:30 ` minyard
2001-10-20 0:54 ` Language design by by committee ( was Re: Try J# ( was Re: J# " Richard Riehle
2001-10-15 9:18 ` Philip Anderson
2001-10-15 1:54 ` Robert Dewar
2001-10-15 2:20 ` Darren New
2001-10-15 16:44 ` Ray Blaak
2001-10-15 17:12 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-15 18:12 ` Pascal Obry
2001-10-16 4:09 ` Tim Tyler
2001-10-16 6:01 ` Ray Blaak
2001-10-16 14:21 ` Arthur Evans Jr
2001-10-17 9:35 ` Where is jean Ichibiah now ? Israel Raj T
2001-10-17 11:57 ` john
2001-10-17 14:38 ` Israel Raj T
2001-10-17 14:08 ` Wes Groleau
2001-10-18 8:17 ` JTK
2001-10-16 14:23 ` Language design by by committee ( was Re: Try J# ( was Re: J# is there )) Arthur Evans Jr
2001-10-16 14:19 ` Wes Groleau
2001-10-16 19:15 ` Darren New
2001-10-16 14:49 ` Ted Dennison
2001-11-13 2:15 ` David Thompson
2001-10-15 19:57 ` Wes Groleau
2001-10-15 21:01 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-16 4:01 ` Tim Tyler
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