From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_05 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 12 Dec 92 00:42:03 GMT From: walter!obry@uunet.uu.net (Pascal Obry) Subject: Re: FORTRAN bug(was Re: C++ vs. Ada -- Is Ada loosing?) Message-ID: List-Id: Fred, > Single character ones? Probably not, but that just indicates that Ada > is incredibly more verbose than C. One of the things I DISlike about > it, by the way. Why do you use english ? ( > @ - + / ~ $ ============================== Because I'am the only one to know this language I put below the dictionary : > this ( try $ word + it , - / is @ language ~ without ============================== I like Ada because you can *read* it. And this seem to be one of the most important thing about a language. With goods choices for the identifier, you can read an Ada progam like a text, you don't have to translate what you read. You write a program one time, but how many time you read it ? Pascal. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Pascal OBRY -- -- Room 2D-337 e_mail : obry@bellcore.com -- -- Bellcore -- -- 445 South Street voice : 1 - 201 829 4039 -- -- Post Office Box 1910 FAX : 1 - 201 829 5981 -- -- Morristown, New Jersey 07962-1910 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- `` inheritance is surely a good answer, but who knows the question ? ''