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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,901038687c38f61c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!freenix!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Idiom for a class and an object in Ada Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:59:38 -0400 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1098367215 57092 212.85.156.195 (21 Oct 2004 14:00:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:00:15 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5582 Date: 2004-10-21T09:59:38-04:00 Matthew Heaney writes: > Jeffrey Carter 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 ___________________________________________________________ This mail sent using ToadMail -- Web based e-mail @ ToadNet