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From: xanthian@well.com (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: the Ada mandate,
 and why it collapsed and died (was): 64 bit  addressing and OOP
Date: 23 Apr 2003 16:06:58 -0700
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Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote:
> "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com> writes:

>> Array slicing is a wonderfully useful feature.  I use this feature
in almost
>> every program of mine.

> Really!?  I think of array slicing as a pretty minor feature of Ada,
> which causes a lot of trouble for compiler writers, that could be
> dispensed with.  After all, you could write a function that grabs those
> components.

> I'm thinking particularly of slices as L-values.  Do you ever use that?

It might be "minor" now, but if Ada is ever to stand beside Fortran as
a programming language for supercomputers, it is awfully nice that
this much of the needed semantics are "already in there"; they were a
huge shock when they first hit Fortran all in a lump.

[And by the way, since I've drifted away from Ada for lack of job
prospects for an Ada beginner without a current security clearance, is
there any effort underway to add the syntactic sugar for supercomputer
programming to Ada in an upcoming standard's language revision, or is
Ada down to "don't rock the boat" editorial cleanup standards (that
would eventually doom the language) for the foreseeable future, or is
there some big worthwhile effort but in another direction?]

xanthian.