From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
Subject: Re: Ada's ranking of popularity at IEEE Spectrum
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 13:30:03 -0500
Date: 2014-07-10T13:30:03-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lpmm3j$u4q$1@speranza.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: lpmlee$sds$1@speranza.aioe.org
On 7/10/2014 1:18 PM, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
>
> One thing that can be done is concentrate on things that are unique
> or done much better in Ada.
Also things that can be done in more clear way. I like browsing
http://rosettacode.org sometimes and compare how different languages
do somethings. For example, looking at
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Address_of_a_variable
"Demonstrate how to get the address of a variable and how to set the address of a variable"
Ada way:
----------
The_Address : System.Address;
I : Integer;
The_Address := I'Address; -- read
for I'Address use 16#A100#; --- set
--------------------
C++ way:
-----------
int i;
void* address_of_i = &i;
"While C++ doesn't directly support putting a variable
at a given address, the same effect can be achieved by
creating a reference to that address: "
int& i = *(int*)0xA100;
----------------------
Anyone looking at the above 2 examples, can see that Ada is much
more clear. Actually anyone who does not even know Ada can
understand what the code does. Try that with the C++ version!
--Nasser
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2014-07-06 15:19 Ada's ranking of popularity at IEEE Spectrum Dan'l Miller
2014-07-06 16:25 ` gautier_niouzes
2014-07-06 17:18 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-07-06 18:03 ` Ludovic Brenta
2014-07-06 19:03 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-07-06 19:41 ` Ludovic Brenta
2014-07-07 7:03 ` Tero Koskinen
2014-07-06 22:15 ` Brad Moore
2014-07-07 13:14 ` Peter Chapin
2014-07-07 14:27 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-07-09 15:01 ` Brad Moore
2014-07-10 7:42 ` Maciej Sobczak
2014-07-10 13:56 ` Peter Chapin
2014-07-10 18:18 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2014-07-10 18:30 ` Nasser M. Abbasi [this message]
2014-07-11 4:55 ` theanalogmachine
2014-07-11 11:56 ` G.B.
2014-07-07 8:37 ` Brian Drummond
2014-07-06 19:41 ` sbelmont700
2014-07-08 17:25 ` Shark8
2014-07-08 23:03 ` sbelmont700
2014-07-08 23:30 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-09 0:29 ` sbelmont700
2014-07-09 2:30 ` Shark8
2014-07-27 2:01 ` David Thompson
2014-07-27 20:19 ` sbelmont700
2014-07-28 3:53 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-07-07 0:17 ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-07 1:17 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2014-07-07 6:11 ` Simon Wright
2014-07-07 6:30 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-07-07 9:04 ` Brian Drummond
2014-07-07 13:33 ` Simon Wright
2014-07-07 16:11 ` Brian Drummond
2014-07-10 19:49 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2014-07-10 20:19 ` Shark8
2014-07-10 21:39 ` björn lundin
2014-07-10 22:54 ` Shark8
2014-07-11 7:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-07-11 7:37 ` Maciej Sobczak
2014-07-11 9:32 ` björn lundin
2014-07-12 21:43 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2014-07-13 8:52 ` björn lundin
2014-07-11 0:16 ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-11 0:40 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-11 1:15 ` Shark8
2014-07-11 7:03 ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-08 20:10 ` gautier_niouzes
2014-07-10 13:30 ` Gerd
2014-07-10 15:14 ` Shark8
2014-07-10 19:16 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-11 2:17 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2014-07-11 0:39 ` gvdschoot
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