From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5faad1722103f6a7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics References: <90Stc.15309$be.3117@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net> <40b86431$0$186$edfadb0f@dread11.news.tele.dk> <40B888E0.5040707@noplace.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 08:56:48 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1086353808 198.96.223.163 (Fri, 04 Jun 2004 08:56:48 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 08:56:48 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1094 Date: 2004-06-04T08:56:48-04:00 List-Id: Richard Riehle wrote: > "Pascal Obry" wrote in message > news:ulljal52z.fsf@obry.org... ... >>but they do it since everybody else does it :) And the next wave is C# :) >>Until the next language... ... > C# is an interesting language. It seems to have learned a lot from Ada, as > well > as from Java. There are some things I dislike about it. There is even > one > feature I simply find annoying: the misuse of the term "delegation." In > OOP, > delegation has long had one well-understood meaning, and C# has corrupted > that meaning to be the equivalent of a pointer to function. Sheeeeeeesh! > > Richard Riehle My quibble with C# is the the fact that Windows people love those stupid butt-ugly square bracket syntax (for those object attributes). Surely, some better syntax could have been used. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg