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From: jsa@alexandria.organon.com (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: Difference between ADA and c++
Date: 1997/08/27
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In article <dewar.872654913@merv> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

> Jon says
> 
> <<I don't think Brian meant that this would make them easier to read (he
> said "superior") I think it would make them more difficult to read,
> but in some sense "easier to write"...>>
> 
> OK, but the only justification for a feature in Ada is if it makes programs
> easier to read, or at the very least is neutral. Any feature that makes
> programs more difficult to read is outside the design parameters. Ada has
> always favored the reader over the writer in the design!

Brian claims I was in the weeds with this "interpretation" of what he
said - so don't pay any attention to what I said here.  Sorry for the
rubbish.

I believe all three of us are in synch. on the read-vs-write tradeoff
in Ada, I just missed his point...


/Jon

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