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From: Cesar Rabak <csrabak@yahoo.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Alternatives to C: ObjectPascal, Eiffel, Ada or Modula-3?
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:48:10 -0300
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Colin Paul Gloster escreveu:
> On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> 
> |----------------------------------------------------------------------|
> |"[..]                                                                 |
> |                                                                      |
> |[..] In fact there is no language with a good support of units. Ada is|
> |not an exception here.                                                |
> |                                                                      |
> |[..]"                                                                 |
> |----------------------------------------------------------------------|
> 
> Though Dmitry A. Kazakov and I both like Ada, we do not necessarily
> agree as to what constitutes good support of units. Ada provides the
> mapping
> Type * Type -> Type
> and ML provides the mapping
> Type x Type -> (Type x Type)
> and both of these can be worthy without being universally
> desirable. It might be nice to have a language which supports both of
> these kinds of mappings.
Yes! but that means we'd need look after _another_ language :-(

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Cesar Rabak

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