From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Q: on redefinition of "=
Date: 1996/04/02
Date: 1996-04-02T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.828493320@schonberg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4jrlluINN15b@thalamus.cis.ohio-state.edu
David Gibson said
"While I certaily see how this is useful for performance critial
applications, I'm not convinced that this is a particularly good
characteristic for a "software engineering" language. Ada supports
abstraction nicely in many ways. The notion that a programmer needs
to be thinking in terms of how language constructs are implemented
seems less than ideal."
Maybe, but if you break the connection, you tend to find people doing
completely off the wall things (like having all types be controlled :-)
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-03-30 0:00 Q: on redefinition of "= david scott gibson
1996-04-01 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-04-01 0:00 ` david scott gibson
1996-04-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-02 0:00 ` Mike Young
1996-04-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-02 0:00 ` david scott gibson
1996-04-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-04-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-04-02 0:00 ` david scott gibson
1996-04-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-04-02 0:00 ` david scott gibson
1996-04-03 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-04-01 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-04-01 0:00 ` david scott gibson
1996-04-01 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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