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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,93fa00d728cc528e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,93fa00d728cc528e X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-25 07:42:54 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.mathworks.com!news.duke.edu!eff!blanket.mitre.org!linus.mitre.org!linus!mbunix!emery From: emery@goldfinger.mitre.org (David Emery) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.object Subject: Re: SOLVED! Decoupled Mutual Recursion Challenger Followup-To: comp.lang.ada,comp.object Date: 25 Oct 94 10:04:26 Organization: The Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA. Message-ID: References: <38hcv3$j85@baleen.cs.ucla.edu> <38i65r$li2@network.ucsd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: goldfinger.mitre.org In-reply-to: mbk@inls1.ucsd.edu's message of 25 Oct 1994 05:47:39 GMT Xref: nntp.gmd.de comp.lang.ada:16140 comp.object:16529 Date: 1994-10-25T10:04:26+00:00 List-Id: >: Ada9x is too obese and is being too effected by trying to be an >: "elegant" (rigid) extension of obese Ada83. I really don't understand >: why can't some clown spend a few minutes to come up with a cleaner >: smaller (more minimalist) Ada style language. >That's what Meyer did, it's called Eiffel. Really. Ada83 was a big >influence. Eiffel and Ada(83|9X) have somewhat different design goals. Ada tends to be more general-purpose, while Eiffel tends to promote a specific view of software design. dave -- --The preceeding opinions do not necessarily reflect the opinions of --The MITRE Corporation or its sponsors. -- "A good plan violently executed -NOW- is better than a perfect plan -- next week" George Patton -- "Any damn fool can write a plan. It's the execution that gets you -- all screwed up" James Hollingsworth -------------------------------------------------------------------------