From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@bpr.best.vwh.net>
Subject: Re: ada paper critic
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 19:56:12 +0000
Date: 2002-06-17T19:56:12+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.40.0206171944480.93931-100000@bpr.best.vwh.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aekf5v$7c5e8$1@ID-100557.news.dfncis.de>
On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Immanuel Scholz wrote:
> Ted Dennison wrote:
> > Immanuel Scholz wrote:
> >> (Nevertheless, I think that giving the same syntax to Arrays and
> >> functions is good, not bad.)
> >
> > We've actually had a lot of discussion here about that. Almost everyone
> > who ever complains about it is an ex-C programmer who's main problem
> > always boils down to "it doesn't look like C".
Unsupported ad-hominem argument. I certainly wish that Ada used different
bracketing for arrays, and the reason it doesn't is unfortunate. However,
this is never going to change in Ada so it isn't worth spending a lot of
time discussing it in the context of Ada revisions, though if you're
talking about a brand new language I suppose it's fair game. Better to
devote some effort to fixable flaws of Ada.
Any fan of Wirth designed languages might also be tarred with the same
brush used on C programmers here.
> I am an (ex-)C programmer too, and most part of the time I complain about
> sitting hours before large trees of code and change occourences of a[b]
> into a(i) because a became a function instead of an array. ;-)
That may be, but any Ada True Believer will chant that in Ada, we don't
give a !@#$ for the writer of programs, we only care about the reader.
Lot's of inane anti-C stuff deleted.
-- Brian
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Thread overview: 121+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-14 14:31 ada paper critic Alderson, Paul A.
2002-06-14 15:16 ` Darren New
2002-06-14 15:58 ` Andrew Maizels
2002-06-14 17:00 ` chris.danx
2002-06-14 18:44 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-06-14 20:26 ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-14 22:06 ` Ehud Lamm
2002-06-14 22:01 ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-14 22:38 ` sk
2002-06-15 11:28 ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-15 18:10 ` sk
2002-06-15 14:30 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-15 17:36 ` sk
2002-06-16 3:08 ` Gautier
2002-06-16 0:05 ` AG
2002-06-16 21:05 ` Gautier
2002-06-14 23:10 ` tmoran
2002-06-15 14:19 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-15 23:04 ` Darren New
2002-06-15 23:38 ` Darren New
2002-06-17 10:56 ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-17 19:56 ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
2002-06-17 20:47 ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-18 18:10 ` Brian Rogoff
2002-06-18 18:51 ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-18 19:08 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-06-18 20:47 ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-19 5:28 ` Robert I. Eachus
2002-06-18 14:01 ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-14 20:58 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-14 21:30 ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-15 1:24 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-15 3:02 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2002-06-15 21:54 ` AG
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-06-14 22:28 Gautier direct_replies_not_read
2002-06-15 14:43 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-14 22:18 Beard, Frank [Contractor]
2002-06-15 1:38 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-06-14 22:08 Beard, Frank [Contractor]
2002-06-14 20:36 Beard, Frank [Contractor]
2002-06-14 21:34 ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-15 4:14 ` Lyle McKennot
2002-06-14 20:06 Gautier no_direct_reply_please
2002-06-14 20:48 ` Baugereau
2002-06-15 14:38 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-14 19:42 Gautier no_direct_reply_please
2002-06-15 15:08 ` Simon Wright
2002-06-15 22:52 ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-16 0:38 ` AG
2002-06-17 14:15 ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-18 13:52 ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-18 15:41 ` Darren New
2002-06-18 18:04 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-06-19 1:04 ` Rod Haper
2002-06-16 22:19 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-16 23:02 ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-17 7:07 ` Kevin Cline
2002-06-18 20:54 ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-18 22:15 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-14 0:49 Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-14 1:28 ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-14 1:43 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-14 4:53 ` David Marceau
2002-06-14 6:40 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-14 6:49 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-06-14 12:18 ` Baugereau
2002-06-14 16:30 ` David Marceau
2002-06-14 17:34 ` Baugereau
2002-06-14 19:01 ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-14 19:43 ` Baugereau
2002-06-15 3:02 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2002-06-15 9:49 ` Pascal Obry
2002-06-17 15:53 ` Dan Andreatta
2002-06-17 18:20 ` Pascal Obry
2002-06-17 20:56 ` Michael Bode
2002-06-17 21:18 ` Pascal Obry
2002-06-16 21:52 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-14 20:02 ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-14 3:14 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-14 4:35 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-14 8:05 ` David Marceau
2002-06-14 12:31 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-14 15:08 ` Darren New
2002-06-17 0:17 ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-14 19:05 ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-16 3:34 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-16 3:32 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-14 8:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-06-14 12:19 ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-14 14:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-06-14 15:09 ` Darren New
2002-06-16 22:49 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-06-16 15:07 ` Jim Rogers
2002-06-17 4:06 ` Darren New
2002-06-17 4:52 ` Jim Rogers
2002-06-17 9:45 ` David Marceau
2002-06-17 15:42 ` Darren New
2002-06-17 3:59 ` Darren New
2002-06-17 22:19 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-06-14 12:58 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-14 22:16 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-15 1:22 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-15 0:51 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-15 11:49 ` Immanuel Scholz
2002-06-15 21:45 ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-14 14:59 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-16 3:27 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-16 22:18 ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-16 22:38 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-14 15:00 ` Ted Dennison
2002-06-14 20:13 ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-14 18:52 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-06-15 22:03 ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-16 1:58 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-06-16 3:19 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-06-16 22:20 ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-17 1:57 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-06-17 2:16 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-06-14 15:25 ` John R. Strohm
2002-06-15 4:05 ` Lyle McKennot
2002-06-17 13:32 ` Marin David Condic
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