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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,52fd60a337c05842 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-14 15:40:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!enst!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: sk Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ada paper critic Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 17:38:15 -0500 Organization: ENST, France Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: References: <3D0A399C.EF6F1BD9@acm.org> Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1024094403 56532 137.194.161.2 (14 Jun 2002 22:40:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 22:40:03 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.19-4.3mdk i686) X-Accept-Language: en Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25994 Date: 2002-06-14T17:38:15-05:00 Hi, > ... harder to write really nasty code in ada. Are you sure ? I personally have had no problems whatsover in writing truly dreadfull code in Ada and enjoyed every minute of it. > (The extense use of pointer arithmetic is the wordst > and most powerful weapon in C). Are you under the (false) impression that you cannot totally hose the memory with Ada and address arithmetic ? Again, tons of fun ! > What about the operator overloading possibilities in ada? type My_Natural is new Natural; function "+"(A, B : My_Natural) return My_Natural is begin return 0; end "+"; Yep this is fun too. If this definition is not in an obvious location it can take a long time to debug when this bites you. > Sometimes only provocative statements ... That is BS and you know it. -- ------------------------------------- -- Merge vertically for real address ------------------------------------- s n p @ t . o k i e k c c m -------------------------------------