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From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org>
Subject: Re: what are some of the uses for ada?
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:10:26 -0700
Date: 2010-06-08T21:10:26-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <hun4aj$gle$1@tornado.tornevall.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hun01g$emp$1@speranza.aioe.org>

Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> 
> Along the same thought, I like that in Ada one can easily define an 
> array to start from 0 instead from 1. 

Or 23, or Blue, or whatever is meaningful for the problem.

The idea in Ada is to model the problem in the SW, not translate the problem 
into terms defined by the language.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"
Monty Python's Flying Circus
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-09  4:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-08 19:43 what are some of the uses for ada? Robin
2010-06-08 21:04 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2010-06-08 21:56 ` nobody
2010-06-12  9:40   ` Robin
2010-06-09  1:06 ` Gautier write-only
2010-06-09  2:58   ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2010-06-09  4:10     ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2010-06-09  4:37     ` (see below)
2010-06-09  7:21 ` What are some of the uses for Ada? Jacob Sparre Andersen
2010-06-09  7:30   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-06-09  7:38     ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-06-09  7:41     ` J-P. Rosen
2010-06-09  7:25 ` what are some of the uses for ada? Ludovic Brenta
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