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: fd6dd,c78177ec2e61f4ac X-Google-Attributes: gidfd6dd,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,c78177ec2e61f4ac X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@alexandria.organon.com (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: ada and robots Date: 1997/06/18 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 249398717 Distribution: world References: <338CDA96.53EA@halcyon.com> <338F5D7D.6C03@tiac.net> <338F9D05.5EB3@bix.com> <5mqpj3$bc5$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <33930245.12A1@sprintmail.com> <5mv984$7kn@news.emi.com> <33A5D644.37A3@epix.net> <33A7427F.6646@epix.net> Organization: PSI Public Usenet Link Newsgroups: comp.robotics.misc,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-06-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <33A7427F.6646@epix.net> "Matthew S. Whiting" writes: > much to the point. I'm not sure how to reconcile the disagreement > between Jon and Robert with respect to whether 1.5 of the points made > were legitimate or not, but this provides a good reason for me to study > Ada a little more to make my own judgement. Which of these are you thinking about? The varying argument list? Robert is correct - it is not _directly_ supported, but the effect can be rather simply achieved. This is something to really watch out for and why the so called "Dewar Effect" of learning a language's idioms can be important. Just because X does not have Y's construct C for doing Blah doesn't mean that the _effect_ of Blah given by C is not directly expressible in X. It typically only means it is expressed differently. In any case, your last point is exactly correct - make your own _informed_ judgement. > appreciate the time you all took to respond, especially those with > useful responses! I'm not sure which is worse, the ignorance of many C > and C++ programmers or the arrogance of many Ada programmers... Good question. Arrogance is certainly more annoying while ignorance is much more frustrating and difficult to work through. Probably a wash... /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