From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: Ada95 speed
Date: 1999/06/06
Date: 1999-06-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906062033030.19450-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7jf27g$94g$1@nnrp1.deja.com
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Robert Dewar wrote:
> In article <7jer69$j8n@lotho.delphi.com>,
> tmoran@bix.com wrote:
> > >In those days, I was as big a fan of APL for the kind of work
> I was doing
> > >as I am of Ada today.
> > There is more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents ... ;)
>
> Actually, Ada does not BEGIN to compare in ease of use to APL
> for programs for which APL is well suited. Ultimately Ada is
> still an efficiency-oriented lowish level language, and cannot
> compete for ease of expression with true very high level
> languages like APL. That's not a criticism of Ada, just a
> reminder that Ada is NOT the only useful language in the world
> (and you should recognize this even if you are an Ada fan :-)
Yes, I refer to Ada as a systems programming language, with much the
same meaning (efficiency oriented lowish level language) as you use
here.
While I agree that there will always be a gap between Ada and the like and
true VHLLs, I wonder if we can close the gap much more than has been done
so far. For example, downward closures and/or CLU/Sather style iterators
could be fit into an Ada-like language without requiring garbage collection,
and would greatly increase the ease of expression of some constructs.
-- Brian
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1999-06-06 0:00 Ada95 speed tmoran
1999-06-06 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-06-06 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-06-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-06 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-06-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-06 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
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1999-06-07 0:00 Robert I. Eachus
1999-06-07 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-06-06 0:00 tmoran
1999-06-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-05 0:00 tmoran
1999-06-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-05 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-06-05 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-05 0:00 ` William Starner
1999-06-05 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-06-06 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-06-06 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-06-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-07 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-06-05 0:00 tmoran
1999-06-05 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-06-05 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
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1999-05-18 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-05-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-20 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-05-20 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-05-20 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-05-20 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-05-21 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-05-31 0:00 ` James E. Hopper
1999-06-01 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-01 0:00 ` James E. Hopper
1999-06-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-04 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-01 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-01 0:00 ` James E. Hopper
1999-06-02 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-04 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-04 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-04 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
1999-06-04 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-06-02 0:00 ` James E. Hopper
1999-06-02 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-02 0:00 ` James E. Hopper
1999-06-02 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-02 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-06-02 0:00 ` John B. Matthews, M.D.
1999-06-02 0:00 ` John B. Matthews, M.D.
1999-06-02 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-06-03 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-05-31 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-05-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-18 0:00 Clifford J. Nelson
1999-05-17 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-05-20 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-05-21 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-05-21 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-05-21 0:00 ` Clifford J. Nelson
1999-05-21 0:00 ` Tom Moran
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