From: Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>
Subject: Re: [Ada] implement many new Ada 2005 features
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:24:00 +0100
Date: 2005-02-27T16:24:00+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.62.0502271621130.-706617@PC3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wccwtt8o8qz.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com>
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Robert A Duff wrote:
"Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com> writes:
> But would you suggest that college level compiler classes not assign
> their students to go write a compiler? Probably not.
...
An Ada compiler is probably not the best choice for a college course. ;-)"
For an entirely different reason a compilers lecturer I used to have had a
problem with Ada: he believed that structural equivalence and compatiblity
of types (i.e. weaktyping) was superior to strong typing. Yikes!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-27 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-14 8:42 [Ada] implement many new Ada 2005 features Hyman Rosen
2005-02-15 13:30 ` Marin David Condic
2005-02-16 8:01 ` Hyman Rosen
2005-02-16 13:13 ` Marin David Condic
2005-02-16 14:54 ` Robert A Duff
2005-02-17 12:35 ` Marin David Condic
2005-02-27 15:24 ` Colin Paul Gloster [this message]
2005-02-17 23:00 ` Randy Brukardt
2005-02-18 4:21 ` Ed Falis
2005-02-18 5:27 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-02-27 15:33 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2005-02-28 22:31 ` Randy Brukardt
2005-02-28 23:58 ` tmoran
2005-03-01 9:08 ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2005-03-01 10:14 ` Colin_Paul_Gloster
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