Re: OO Style with Ada Containers

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@acm.nospam.org>]

Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> 
> 'Think of arrays as sequential structures. Some of the brightest people
>  in computer science have suggested that arrays never be accessed
>  randomly, but only sequentially (Mills and Linger 1986). Their argument
>  is that random accesses in arrays are similar to random "gotos" in a
>  program.' (p251)

Actually, Mills and Linger suggested that arrays and pointers never be used; 
that the only data structures in an application be stacks, queues, and sets. 
They argued that indices and pointers were the data equivalent of using goto in 
programming. The paper is "Data Structured Programming: Program
Design without Arrays and Pointers", /IEEE Transactions on Software 
Engineering/, 1986 Feb.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Beyond 100,000 lines of code you
should probably be coding in Ada."
P. J. Plauger
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