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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement
Date: 1998/02/18
Date: 1998-02-18T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.887853962@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 34EB6579.C791152D@cs.utexas.edu


<<    Could you do another literature search for me?  I'm interested in
papers that explain why Ada is an overly complex language, why it's
a hard language to write a compiler for, and other problems with Ada.
>>


I would say that it is almost certain that the above words are written
by someone looking to justify a decision they have already made. If someone
had an open mind, they might say:

"I am concerned as to whether Ada may be overly complex, or hard to 
compile. Can you do a literature search to see what has been written
on this subject."






  parent reply	other threads:[~1998-02-18  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-02-15  0:00 Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-15  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-16  0:00   ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-16  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-16  0:00       ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-17  0:00         ` Andi Kleen
1998-02-17  0:00           ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-17  0:00       ` Geert Bosch
1998-02-19  0:00         ` Parsing Ada and C++ Steve Furlong
1998-02-16  0:00   ` Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-16  0:00     ` Jon S Anthony
1998-02-16  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-16  0:00       ` Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-17  0:00         ` Joe Gwinn
1998-02-17  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-18  0:00             ` vonhend
1998-02-18  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-18  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-22  0:00               ` Simon Wright
1998-02-18  0:00             ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-18  0:00           ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-17  0:00             ` Dan Moran
1998-02-18  0:00             ` Joe Gwinn
1998-02-17  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-18  0:00           ` Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-19  0:00             ` John English
1998-02-22  0:00               ` Luis Espinal
1998-02-22  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-23  0:00                   ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-24  0:00                     ` Jonas Nygren
1998-02-24  0:00                       ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-02-25  0:00                         ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-25  0:00                         ` Keith Thompson
1998-02-20  0:00             ` Markus Kuhn
1998-02-20  0:00               ` Laurent Guerby
1998-03-03  0:00               ` Matthew Heaney
1998-03-03  0:00                 ` Stanley R. Allen
1998-02-19  0:00           ` Ada's complexity Steve Furlong
1998-02-20  0:00             ` Markus Kuhn
1998-02-17  0:00         ` Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to implement Simon Wright
1998-02-18  0:00           ` Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-18  0:00             ` Stanley R. Allen
1998-02-18  0:00             ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1998-02-18  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-19  0:00               ` Stanley R. Allen
1998-02-20  0:00                 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-03-05  0:00             ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-02-16  0:00     ` Ralph Paul
1998-02-16  0:00     ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-16  0:00 ` nabbasi
1998-02-16  0:00   ` Yongxiang Gao
1998-02-16  0:00     ` nabbasi
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