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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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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