From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: Answering an Ada/COBOL Question
Date: 1999/11/13
Date: 1999-11-13T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911132308290.27448-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 80leu1$k3l$1@nnrp1.deja.com
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Robert Dewar wrote:
> In article
> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911131710530.16406-100000@shell5.ba.best.com>,
> > I don't want to rain on your parade, but how is this nicer
> > than the pattern matching capability that all modern
> > functional programming
> > languages have?
>
> Sure, these pattern matching facilities handle this capability
> fine, though often not with such convenient syntax. But that's
> besides the point given that none of these "modern functional
> programming languages" are even vaguely suitable for fiscal
> programming.
Let me put back in a quote you snipped to remind you of what the point
I commented on is
> Richard D Riehle wrote:
> > Yes, indeed. The COBOL version of a case statement is still the
> > most elegant design of multiway selection I have seen in any
> > language.
I also found the ML version of the case syntactically much nicer. Also,
pattern matching works on more than just sequences of booleans.
Note that I am not commenting at all on the suitableness of FPs for
fiscal programming, just on the claim of "most elegant case design" for
COBOL.
-- Brian
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Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-12 0:00 Answering an Ada/COBOL Question Richard D Riehle
1999-11-13 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-11-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-13 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
1999-11-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-14 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-11-15 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-11-15 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-11-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-16 0:00 ` Erlang (Was Re: Answering an Ada/COBOL Question) Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-16 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-17 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-22 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-11-22 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-11-17 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1999-11-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-16 0:00 ` Answering an Ada/COBOL Question Robert Dewar
1999-11-16 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-11-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-18 0:00 ` Marin Condic
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Marin Condic
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-18 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-11-19 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-11-15 0:00 ` Joseph P Vlietstra
1999-11-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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