From: "Non scrivetemi" <nonscrivetemi@pboxmix.winstonsmith.info>
Subject: Re: ADA made me hate programming
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 17:54:05 +0200 (CEST)
Date: 2010-07-02T17:54:05+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f60b4e4c2db32a8bb5a90c48a5bc62d7@pboxmix.winstonsmith.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: op.ve6n2eysanduac@home-2l5xxxt7p3
> Fortran, Cobol and every other higher level language of the time omitted
> pointers because almost all of their addressing was direct.
I don't know what you meant with this sentence. It was simply the case that
pointers weren't provided in the base language because they were
unnecesssary. This is not the same as "all of their addressing was direct".
In fact pointers were used by the compiled code for argument passing
etc. but they were not an abstraction that was required at the source
level.
BTW since this is comp.lang.ada where people are reminded Ada is a proper
name and not an acronym, you should be reminded FORTRAN and COBOL *are*
acronyms and should be capitalised as I wrote and not as you wrote.
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2010-06-30 5:23 ADA made me hate programming mahdert
2010-06-30 5:33 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2010-06-30 5:42 ` mahdert
2010-06-30 16:49 ` Warren
2010-06-30 18:12 ` George Orwell
2010-06-30 6:40 ` anon
2010-06-30 19:07 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2010-07-01 1:38 ` starwars
2010-07-01 4:57 ` anon
2010-07-01 13:22 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-07-01 14:00 ` (see below)
2010-07-01 17:11 ` anon
2010-07-01 21:16 ` Wilson
2010-07-02 7:01 ` anon
2010-07-02 15:54 ` Non scrivetemi [this message]
2010-07-02 16:10 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-07-02 16:55 ` Peter C. Chapin
2010-07-06 5:37 ` David Thompson
2010-07-01 23:29 ` Randy Brukardt
2010-07-02 6:07 ` anon
2010-08-20 22:44 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-07-02 10:45 ` sjw
2010-07-02 18:04 ` anon
2010-07-02 18:53 ` Simon Wright
2010-07-03 1:54 ` anon
2010-07-03 13:16 ` Marc A. Criley
2010-07-03 21:50 ` anon
2010-07-04 11:40 ` Simon Wright
2010-07-04 23:15 ` anon
2010-07-05 6:00 ` Simon Wright
2010-07-04 17:52 ` Marc A. Criley
2010-07-04 23:22 ` anon
2010-07-05 0:22 ` Marc A. Criley
2010-07-05 10:49 ` anon
2010-07-05 21:50 ` Marc A. Criley
2010-07-06 11:15 ` Stephen Leake
2010-07-06 12:25 ` Marc A. Criley
2010-07-06 19:22 ` Simon Wright
2010-07-06 20:03 ` anon
2010-07-06 19:55 ` anon
2010-07-06 22:51 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-07-07 0:10 ` Marc A. Criley
2010-07-08 0:23 ` anon
2010-07-09 0:14 ` Marc A. Criley
2010-07-03 21:43 ` Simon Wright
2010-08-21 0:33 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-21 10:05 ` Simon Wright
2010-08-20 22:30 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-23 15:38 ` Warren
2010-08-20 21:57 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-20 22:00 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-07-01 13:29 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-08-21 0:40 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-06-30 7:00 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-06-30 8:36 ` tonyg
2010-06-30 23:14 ` Phil Clayton
2010-07-01 12:58 ` Lucretia
2010-06-30 9:37 ` Gautier write-only
2010-06-30 17:05 ` [Ada] " Warren
2010-06-30 21:10 ` Kulin Remailer
2010-07-02 20:03 ` Warren
2010-07-06 5:37 ` David Thompson
2010-06-30 23:42 ` Peter C. Chapin
2010-07-01 14:14 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-07-01 14:27 ` (see below)
2010-07-01 15:36 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-07-01 18:54 ` (see below)
2010-07-01 22:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-07-01 22:11 ` (see below)
2010-07-02 8:28 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-07-02 17:52 ` Non scrivetemi
2010-07-02 19:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-07-05 12:40 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-07-02 14:07 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-07-01 19:34 ` Simon Wright
2010-07-02 20:30 ` Warren
2010-07-01 23:50 ` Randy Brukardt
2010-07-02 7:39 ` Georg Bauhaus
[not found] ` <11xsi9ilnamk6$.1r1kaahru68b1.dlg@40tude.net>
2010-07-02 10:35 ` Georg Bauhaus
[not found] ` <u94jhtubncu$.2l0z5ep3q0kw.dlg@40tude.net>
2010-07-02 13:24 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-07-02 14:25 ` Peter Hermann
2010-07-02 18:51 ` anon
2010-07-02 14:26 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-07-02 18:56 ` Simon Wright
2010-08-21 0:54 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-23 15:51 ` Warren
2010-08-23 16:44 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-23 16:57 ` Warren
2010-08-23 20:25 ` Reporting bugs in GNAT (was: [Ada] made me hate programming) Ludovic Brenta
2010-08-23 21:29 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-23 22:02 ` Reporting bugs in GNAT Ludovic Brenta
2010-08-24 13:32 ` Reporting bugs in GNAT (was: [Ada] made me hate programming) Warren
2010-08-24 17:41 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-26 12:53 ` Warren
2010-08-26 19:01 ` Reporting bugs in GNAT Simon Wright
2010-08-26 19:53 ` Florian Weimer
2010-08-26 20:22 ` Simon Wright
[not found] ` <m7mkuvmw72ec.1fan4hqr668s6.dlg@40tude.net>
2010-06-30 10:00 ` ADA made me hate programming Pascal Obry
2010-06-30 18:54 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-06-30 19:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-07-01 5:15 ` Simon Wright
2010-07-01 13:11 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2010-07-01 18:07 ` Gautier write-only
2010-07-01 0:34 ` Kulin Remailer
2010-07-01 4:47 ` Wilson
2010-07-06 21:59 ` Pablo
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