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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5992229ab824d8f7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: Q: on redefinition of "= Date: 1996/04/02 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 145521888 references: <4jkj5sINN8d3@aleutian.cis.ohio-state.edu> <3160C33B.1FE2@mcs.com> <4jrlluINN15b@thalamus.cis.ohio-state.edu> organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-04-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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 :-)