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: 103376,3d3f20d31be1c33a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@alexandria.organon.com (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Warts was Re: The stupidity of all the Ariane 5 analysts. Date: 1997/08/08 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 262937849 References: <33C835A5.362A@flash.net> <33CC0548.4099@flash.net> <5qitoi$fdv$1@news.irisa.fr> <33CD6512.2404@flash.net> <01bc92e6$7a6f9e40$287b7b7a@tlo2> <33CEAF05.6389@flash.net> <33D2827B.41C67EA6@eiffel.com> <5qucs7$jie$3@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu> <33D3F2CB.61DC@flash.net> <5r4952$nca$1@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu> <33DE3CC7.2294@gsg.eds.com> <33E07E29.69CB@eurocontrol.fr> <33E7B7A5.56FF@gsg.eds.com> <5scqlr$ju@news.sei.cmu.edu> Distribution: world Organization: PSINet Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-08-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article Brian Rogoff writes: > I'd be interested in reading it, if you can dig up the reference. Another > good source (IMO of course) for Ada flaws is at > > ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hb/hbaker/ Agreed. > numerous flaws (of varying severity) in the language. My "favorite" one is > this (from "Safe and Leakproof Resource Management using Ada83 Limited > Types", among others) That's not nearly as bad as the one about how limited types are not required to be passed by reference. A flaw that was continued into Ada95 (with only partial mitigation). > I posted an example of such a problem about a month ago. I am writing an The one I site, shows up in the GC stuff - I guess which is more "favorite" depends on what your working on :-) > I should also note that while I agree with many of the criticisms > made by Henry Baker in those papers, I don't share his very negative > view of Ada. Scheme, SML, and Forth also suck, like Ada, but in > different ways. Absolutely agree! Henry has his own blinders and they apparently keep him from seeing the truth about these (and Lisp in general). /Jon -- Jon Anthony OMI, Belmont, MA 02178, 617.484.3383 "Nightmares - Ha! The way my life's been going lately, Who'd notice?" -- Londo Mollari