From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: Two ideas for the next Ada Standard
Date: 1996/09/06
Date: 1996-09-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JSA.96Sep5211651@alexandria> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 96090416102641@psavax.pwfl.com
In article <96090416102641@psavax.pwfl.com> "Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93" <condicma@PWFL.COM> writes:
> Jon S Anthony <jsa@ALEXANDRIA.AMERICAN.EDU> writes:
Wow. Something is _really_ screwy with my address. I'm certainly
not at "americant.edu" - I'm at where my sig. sez. I wonder what the
deal is with this - some others have pointed out some screwy things
with my address too. <mutter mutter damn Unix mutter mutter damn UUNET
mutter mutter>
> I imagine this is a common problem when switching from *any*
> language to *any other*. It's hard to convince many people that
> they need to adjust the way they think about solving the problems
> to the (dare I use the word?) paradigm imposed by the new
> language.
To me, the trick has always been to understand what it is that the
various constructs and their interrelationships are trying to solve or
what capability they are trying to provide. I mean this at the level
of the language - not "just" the programmer's view trying to write a
hunk of code. Once you have that, it is fairly easy to move around.
"Oh language X solves that problem with A, B, and C. Interesting.
Language Y solves it with R and Q." The only place where you may hit
a speed bump with this is when moving between procedural and
declarative languages.
/Jon
--
Jon Anthony
Organon Motives, Inc.
1 Williston Road, Suite 4
Belmont, MA 02178
617.484.3383
jsa@organon.com
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1996-09-04 0:00 Two ideas for the next Ada Standard Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Retraining from C++ to Ada (was Two Ideas...) Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony [this message]
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1996-09-06 0:00 Two ideas for the next Ada Standard Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-09-04 0:00 Bob Mathis
1996-08-31 0:00 dulman
1996-09-01 0:00 ` Two " Robert Dewar
1996-09-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Jonas Nygren
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Jonas Nygren
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Two " Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Joel VanLaven
1996-09-04 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Jonas Nygren
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-09-08 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-09 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1996-09-09 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-07 0:00 ` Jonas Nygren
1996-09-08 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-08 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-11 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-08-28 0:00 Two ideas for the next Ada standard Van Snyder
1996-08-29 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1996-08-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-08-30 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-08-31 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-08-31 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Dennison
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Dennison
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-07 0:00 ` Dennison
1996-09-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-09 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-07 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-09-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-02 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1996-09-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-08-30 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-08-30 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1996-08-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-08-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-31 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-08-31 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-01 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-08-31 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-01 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-02 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1996-09-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
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