From: emery@dr_no.mitre.org (David Emery)
Subject: Re: Ada as a beginning language
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 01:32:51 GMT
Date: 1993-03-19T01:32:51+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EMERY.93Mar18203251@dr_no.mitre.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jcreem@Rapnet.Sanders.Lockheed.Com's message of Thu, 18 Mar 93 22:08:21 GMT
In a discussion on this with a college professor, I asserted Ada's
greatest strength is its well-defined error handling. As much stuff
as possible is checked at compile-time. Stuff that isn't checked at
compile-time (unless erroneous) is caught at run-time with predictable
behavior (i.e. an exception). Contract this to C, FORTRAN and Pascal,
and try to explain to a student what happens when s/he accidentally
divides by zero...
dave
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1993-03-18 3:34 Ada as a beginning language David Smith (GE)
1993-03-18 22:08 ` cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate
1993-03-19 1:32 ` David Emery [this message]
1993-03-19 21:41 ` Michael Feldman
1993-03-25 18:58 ` Jack Beidler
1993-03-23 0:54 ` Neal Rigney
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