From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: A true compliment to Ada
Date: 1997/03/30
Date: 1997-03-30T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.859757471@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5hljil$p00@peg.apc.org
Adrian said
<<Yet her immediate response was to comment on its superior
readability (compared to Pascal), and as she read it she
confirmed that she found the code - written though it was
in a totally foreign language - to be very understandable!
Her only question concerned an exception handler in one of
my subprograms>>
I am having my compiler students read GNAT code at the moment, and at one
point in an exchange, I commented that probably the Ada in the front end
of GNAT should be easy to read. She replied that that was not the problem
"Ada is painfully easy to read". Odd choice of words, but the same message
I think :-)
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