From: "Pat Rogers" <progers@NOclasswideSPAM.com>
Subject: Re: How to make like Fortran "do i = 1,20,2"
Date: 2000/07/27
Date: 2000-07-27T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
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"Gary Scott" <Gary.L.Scott@lmtas.lmco.com> wrote in message
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> Hmmm, these and similar examples posted do not make Ada look very
> elegant...it makes a very simple concept seem somewhat convoluted.
To quote the Ada 83 Rationale:
"Several studies on the use of programming languages have shown that
the vast majority of loops are very simple. Hence generalities such
as the step expression of Algol 60 should be avoided."
Like it or not (and I don't), that was the stated justification.
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-07-27 0:00 How to make like Fortran "do i = 1,20,2" Reinert Korsnes
2000-07-27 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2000-07-27 0:00 ` G. de Montmollin
2000-07-27 0:00 ` des walker
2000-07-27 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-07-28 0:00 ` Reinert Korsnes
2000-07-28 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-07-29 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-07-27 0:00 ` Gary Scott
2000-07-27 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-27 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-27 0:00 ` Gary Scott
2000-07-27 0:00 ` Pat Rogers [this message]
2000-07-27 0:00 ` mjsilva
2000-07-27 0:00 ` Matthew J Heaney
2000-07-28 0:00 ` Gary Scott
2000-07-28 0:00 ` mjsilva
2000-07-29 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
2000-07-28 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
[not found] ` <39833637.3B83BFAC@lmtas.lmco.com>
2000-07-29 0:00 ` Gary Scott
2000-07-29 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-07-27 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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