Re: generics in Ada 83

[Jim Rogers <jimmaureenrogers@att.net>]

 
<adaworks@sbcglobal.net> wrote in news:rGJXe.399$9E2.124
@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com:

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> "Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote in message
> news:wccbr2vpsh2.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com...
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>> The Ada way makes it easier to understand what the contract _is_.
>>
>> On the other hand, the C++ way is more powerful.
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> Kinda like the difference between safety-matches and
> strike-anywhere matches.   When I was a kid in rural
> Pennsylvania, we used to call strike-anywhere matches
> "barn burners."  Hmmmmm.  There is an analogy in
> there someplace.
> 

My grandfather lived through the 1908 earthquake that destroyed
much of San Francisco. He was living in Santa Rosa, California
at the time. Santa Rosa is North of San Francisco.

The Santa Rosa area is now at the Southern end of the Sonoma
wine region. In 1908 the area had more breweries than wineries.

Anyway...
My grandfather told of how his house caught fire because a
large case of strike-anywhere matches fell off the shelf
of a store up the road and exploded, causing the destruction
of several dozen buildings including my grandfather's
house.

Jim Rogers