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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,6e045a5e739e2c80 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Received: by 10.68.231.202 with SMTP id ti10mr7152406pbc.5.1329499862461; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:31:02 -0800 (PST) Path: wr5ni36450pbc.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: =?utf-8?B?RnVuIHdpdGggSGlzdG9yeTrCoOKAnFdoeSB3YXNuJ3QgQWRhODMgb2JqZWM=?= =?utf-8?B?dCBvcmllbnRlZD/igJ0=?= Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:31:01 +0100 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: g5KXXei1ehLN149F0y/3gg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.61 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Date: 2012-02-17T18:31:01+01:00 List-Id: Le Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:22:18 +0100, Yannick Duch=C3=AAne (Hibou57) = a =C3=A9crit: > Quoted from: = > http://www.adapower.com/index.php?Command=3DClass&ClassID=3DAdvocacy&C= ID=3D39 Then later after the above quote, there are some words about type = extention's dark sides, and a funny quote again: > Funny story: A new programmer just started using Ada, and posted a > question to this newsgroup. He had been reading in Mike Feldman's > introductory book about the abstract data types in Ada, and remarked > that ADTs reminded him of object-oriented programming. He wanted to > know what the difference was between the two. Interesting reaction. -- = =E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1] =E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.= =E2=80=9D [1] [1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers= ity