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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>
To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
Subject: Re: Idiom for a class and an object in Ada
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:59:38 -0400
Date: 2004-10-21T09:59:38-04:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.45.1098367212.10401.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org> (raw)

Matthew Heaney <matthewjheaney@earthlink.net> writes:

> Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com> writes:
> 
> > Matthew Heaney wrote:
> > 
> > > For reasons I can't fathom, many Ada95 developers still have a very
> > > Ada83 mindset.
> > 
> > That's because Ada 83 was a very good language, and the idioms that were
> > good for it are still good.
> 
> Ancient history.

The mere fact that something is _ancient_ doesn't mean it's _bad_.
Here are some truly ancient facts:

2 + 2 = 4

a**2 + b**2 = c**2

F = M a

Will you dismiss those in the same way?

Please give real reasons why Ada 83 idioms are no longer useful.

--
-- Stephe

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Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-21 13:59 Stephen Leake [this message]
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2004-10-18 11:47 Idiom for a class and an object in Ada Marin David Condic
2004-10-18 12:14 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-18 19:40   ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-19 12:59   ` Marin David Condic
2004-10-19 14:46     ` Martin Dowie
2004-10-19 15:55       ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-19 18:31         ` Martin Dowie
2004-10-19 15:52     ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-18 12:26 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-10-19  2:09   ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-19  3:28     ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-19 12:53       ` Marin David Condic
2004-10-19 14:44         ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-19 15:01           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-19 15:40             ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-20  7:58               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-20 12:31                 ` Marin David Condic
2004-10-20 13:53                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-20 15:23                   ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-21 12:24                     ` Marin David Condic
2004-10-21 17:15                       ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-20  5:39         ` Simon Wright
2004-10-20  7:24           ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-20  8:39             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-21  1:36             ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-21  1:46               ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-21  7:51                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-21 12:45                   ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-21 14:11                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-22  1:04                 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-22  1:36                   ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-21 19:31               ` Kevin Cline
2004-10-21 22:02                 ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-22  0:10                   ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-21  8:25             ` Martin Dowie
2004-10-20 17:04           ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-20 19:37             ` Simon Wright
2004-10-20 20:04               ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-22  5:37                 ` Simon Wright
2004-10-20  1:10       ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-20  7:04         ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-20 12:42           ` Marin David Condic
2004-10-20 12:55             ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-20 15:27             ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-21  1:36               ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-19 12:38   ` Marin David Condic
2004-10-18 16:59 ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-18 18:02 ` Martin Dowie
2004-10-19 13:06   ` Marin David Condic
2004-10-19 14:51     ` Martin Dowie
2004-10-20 16:20 ` Michael Paus
2004-10-20 17:15   ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-20 17:55     ` Michael Paus
2004-10-21 12:33   ` Marin David Condic
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