From: ted@nmsu.edu (Ted Dunning)
Subject: Re: Re^2: Ada 9X objectives
Date: 4 Oct 89 20:24:37 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <TED.89Oct4142437@aigyptos.nmsu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jcardow@blackbird.afit.af.mil's message of 4 Oct 89 13:09:52 GMT
In article <1373@blackbird.afit.af.mil> jcardow@blackbird.afit.af.mil (James E. Cardow) writes:
...
As far as what changes should be considered, the first step should be an
evaluation of the features of "research" languages. The very features that
make them attractive are probably the most desired in changes to other
languages. Inheritance as handled by C++ would certainly seem to be a prime
candidate. There is usually a reason why those features make the language
attractive, not considering and incorporating them is foolish.
how do you add the primary feature of scheme which is parsimony to ada
whose salient characteristic is obesity?
in the formal semantics of scheme, the abstract syntax of scheme is
_6_ lines long. and yet this language has considerably _more_ power
than ada in many respects.
how do you ADD this to ada which doesn't even yet have a formal
semantics?
--
ted@nmsu.edu
remember, when extensions and subsets are outlawed,
only outlaws will have extensions or subsets
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1989-09-29 1:59 Ada 9X objectives Bill Wolfe
1989-09-30 16:59 ` ryer
1989-10-02 18:00 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-10-02 20:07 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-10-02 23:33 ` Translating 83 => 9X (Was: Re: Ada 9X objectives) Ronald Guilmette
1989-10-03 18:14 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-10-03 20:02 ` Ronald Guilmette
1989-10-05 1:56 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-10-05 20:35 ` John Goodenough
1989-10-06 16:11 ` Ada 9X objectives William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-10-07 1:27 ` Translating 83 => 9X (Was: Re: Ada 9X objectives) Ronald Guilmette
1989-10-08 16:39 ` Translating 83 => 9X William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-10-04 18:08 ` Translating 83 => 9X (Was: ryer
1989-10-05 15:29 ` stt
1989-10-08 17:56 ` Modernizing Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-10-04 13:09 ` Re^2: Ada 9X objectives James E. Cardow
1989-10-04 20:24 ` Ted Dunning [this message]
1989-10-05 2:04 ` Ada vs. Scheme William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-10-06 12:06 ` Re^2: Ada 9X objectives Norman Diamond
1989-10-06 12:50 ` Robert Munck
1989-10-08 17:07 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-10-10 15:00 ` Robert Munck
1989-10-11 14:47 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-10-11 18:13 ` Dick Dunn
1989-10-11 22:14 ` Question about Ada expressions Perry Schmidt
1989-10-12 10:56 ` STEPHEN D. STRADER
1989-10-12 12:15 ` Robert Firth
1989-10-12 22:07 ` stt
1989-10-13 14:38 ` horst
1989-10-12 1:11 ` Ada 9X objectives William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-10-13 11:05 ` Markku Sakkinen
1989-10-06 19:00 ` Re^2: " Dick Dunn
1989-10-10 3:26 ` James E. Cardow
1989-10-12 5:09 ` Ada 9X objectives and long development cycles Dick Dunn
1989-10-12 18:16 ` Re^2: Ada 9X objectives Robert Eachus
1989-10-02 21:01 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
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