From: "Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>
Subject: Re: A persistent Ada rumor (just to play the fool)
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 09:22:50 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2010-02-05T09:22:50-08:00 [thread overview]
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On 5 fév, 17:58, Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Glos...@ACM.org>
wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Leslie wrote:
>
> |----------------------------------------------------------------|
> |"[..] |
> | |
> | And, ideally, the language should also be designed with |
> |programmer-friendliness, as opposed to implementor-friendliness,|
> |as its primary goal; e.g. Rexx vs Perl. :-) |
> | |
> |[..]" |
> |----------------------------------------------------------------|
>
> I consider Smalltalk versus Eiffel to be a counterexample.
Yes, Bertrand Meyer like to assert that about its language.
While to be honest, implementation rationale is always an issue.
That's true with Ada as it is with Eiffel.
Let say there is different weighting in this area (but can't say any
language does not make it an issue).
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-28 19:32 A persistent Ada rumor (just to play the fool) Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-01-29 15:28 ` Ira Baxter
2010-01-29 20:53 ` Leslie
2010-02-05 16:58 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-02-05 17:22 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne) [this message]
2010-02-02 2:26 ` T. Taft
2010-02-02 12:09 ` Gautier write-only
2010-02-02 19:15 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
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