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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d6b7962983742b0d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@organon.com (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: "C" is better than Ada because of access to separate subprograms Date: 1996/07/15 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 168355458 sender: news@organon.com (news) references: <9607121229.AA03818@most> organization: Organon Motives, Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-07-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <9607121229.AA03818@most> "W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)" writes: > 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. :-) :-) But, I did NOT say that closures are irrelevant nonsense. ROBERT DEWAR put these words in my mouth. They are so utterly _STUPID_ that I hope no one actually believes I really said such RUBBISH. What I said (and STILL CLAIM) is that all this rubbish about _implementing_ closures with displays AS THE REASON for not accepting them was AND IS irrelevant RUBBISH. /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. 1 Williston Road, Suite 4 Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com