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: 103376,5f764f1f7822ab9c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "David Botton" Subject: Re: Top 10 Language Constructs (Ada) Date: 2000/07/15 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 646879412 References: <8kmjja$l5h$1@pollux.ip-plus.net> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Complaints-To: support@usenetserver.com Organization: WebUseNet Corp http://www.usenetserver.com - Home of the fastest NNTP servers on the Net. X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 23:50:08 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-07-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 1. declare blocks = Usage of the stack over heap e.g. usable garbage collection and efficient strings 2. human compatible language = No problems worrying about did I type = or ==, etc. 3. tasking = Language constructs instead of function calls, etc. 4. bounds checking = I've spent tons of time tracking down bounds issues in distributed systems 5. strong typing = Errors caught by the compiler before they crash my applications 6. 'Image = Easy to get textual representaions for debugging, asserts, etc. 7. Slices = The way array access should aways be 8. declaring types at run time = Make strong typing work for you 9. enumerations as array index = Very cool stuff can be done with this 10 representational clauses = no playing with bits ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruno Gustavs" > What do you think are the top ten language constructs in Ada? > Please don't answer in terms of OO concepts, but try to restrict > yourself to those statements you really use to cope with your > daily work.