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,b0d68c502c0ae6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ehud Lamm Subject: Re: Printing Enum Variable Re: Linux World Date: 1999/03/06 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 451945534 References: <7bfc2n$jl9@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> <7bhh26$r7c$1@remarQ.com> <36DCAC1F.430E2C5E@aasaa.ofe.org> <7bk4v8$kl8$1@remarQ.com> <36DDA761.7B4E8099@aasaa.ofe.org> <7bkrmm$ao1$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7bpevu$frn@dfw-ixnews12.ix.netcom.com> <7bpn1v$3kd$1@plug.news.pipex.net> <7brec4$ti2$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Organization: The hebrew University of Jerusalem Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-03-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Sat, 6 Mar 1999 robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com wrote: > It is odd. Every few years, some new group of people > rediscover Church's thesis. They develop a newparadigm > and make the amazing discovery that they can manage to > program any computing problem using this paradigm. They > then conclude that one *ought* to use the paradigm 100% > of the time, some examples are: > > goto-free programming > top down structured programming > applicative/functional programming > data flow programming > integration of correctness proofs > logic programming > ... > > and of course, most recently > > object oriented programming > one of the first things I tell my students is that Ada is a multi-paradigm language. It supports most of the above (though logic programming is not there, and it is not really a functional language). I also add that know which paradigm to use, and when is it smart to combine them - is one of the hard parts! Ehud Lamm mslamm@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il