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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,9df2768f19ef857b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Organization: jrcarter at acm dot org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Question on Ada Expressive Power References: <1137903774.826703.118170@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1137978607.032607.315500@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:06:16 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.3.180.58 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1138046776 67.3.180.58 (Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:06:16 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:06:16 PST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2592 Date: 2006-01-23T20:06:16+00:00 List-Id: adaworks@sbcglobal.net wrote: > > Expressiveness, in computer programming, is the ease with which a > given language allows us to map the problem space to the solution > space. Or, for Ada, the ease of modeling the problem space using the language. -- Jeff Carter "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries." Monty Python & the Holy Grail 06