From: David Starner <dvdeug@email.ro>
Subject: Re: A simple ADA puzzle (I haven't the answer)
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 02:19:36 GMT
Date: 2004-06-22T02:19:36+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan.2004.06.22.02.12.32.60932@email.ro> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1087835574.625787@master.nyc.kbcfp.com
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:32:54 -0400, Hyman Rosen wrote:
>> That's another philosophy, the C++'s one: quick and dirty, or rather
>> "let's first make it dirty, maybe it happens to be quick".
>
> As opposed to Ada's "if we don't have it you don't need it",
> like leaving procedure pointers out of Ada 83.
"There are times when Wirth believes in small solutions for big problems.
I don't believe in that sort of miracle. Big problems need big solutions."
- Jean Ichbiah
For a language that got pounded for having too many features and being too
complex, I think it a little specious to complain that they ignored the
need for features. A decision was made, right or wrong, just like many
decisions were made in C++ to add or not add features.
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2004-06-16 15:40 A simple ADA puzzle (I haven't the answer) Abby
2004-06-16 16:21 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-06-16 16:26 ` Abby
2004-06-16 17:01 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-06-16 17:18 ` Martin Krischik
2004-06-17 6:57 ` Brian May
2004-06-17 12:44 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-06-16 17:58 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-06-23 21:14 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-06-16 19:51 ` Simon Wright
2004-06-16 17:56 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-06-16 22:25 ` Martin Dowie
2004-06-17 0:41 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-06-17 7:45 ` Martin Dowie
2004-06-17 14:20 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-06-18 18:07 ` Wojtek Narczynski
2004-06-18 18:37 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-06-19 2:11 ` Brian May
2004-06-19 11:25 ` Wojtek Narczynski
2004-06-19 1:27 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-06-19 11:17 ` Wojtek Narczynski
2004-06-16 18:31 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-06-16 20:16 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-06-16 21:05 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-06-17 13:26 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-06-17 14:19 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-06-17 15:24 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-06-23 21:27 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-06-17 19:17 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-06-16 22:48 ` Alexander E. Kopilovich
2004-06-17 10:25 ` Björn Persson
2004-06-17 14:33 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-06-17 23:15 ` Alexander E. Kopilovich
2004-06-23 21:30 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-06-17 8:06 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-06-17 12:19 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-06-17 14:16 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-06-17 14:17 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-06-17 22:51 ` Brian May
2004-06-18 7:50 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-06-18 12:32 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-06-18 9:14 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2004-06-18 12:24 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-06-18 12:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-06-18 13:16 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-06-18 14:01 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-06-18 16:14 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-06-19 9:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-06-21 3:30 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-06-21 8:16 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-06-21 16:32 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-06-22 2:19 ` David Starner [this message]
2004-06-22 13:03 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-06-23 21:37 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-06-24 8:39 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-06-24 20:53 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-06-25 8:24 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-06-25 17:37 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-06-26 7:55 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-06-29 0:08 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-06-29 9:32 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-06-29 18:36 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-06-23 21:21 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-06-24 1:03 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-06-24 15:19 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-06-24 16:04 ` Ed Falis
2004-06-24 21:04 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-06-25 15:30 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-06-25 18:16 ` Bob Spooner
2004-06-25 19:23 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-06-26 15:26 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-06-28 4:52 ` Steve
2004-07-04 19:06 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-06-29 0:03 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-06-24 21:00 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-06-16 16:49 ` Martin Krischik
2004-06-17 10:58 ` Björn Persson
2004-06-17 3:48 ` Steve
2004-06-17 10:39 ` Björn Persson
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2004-06-17 8:38 Christoph Karl Walter Grein
2004-06-23 21:43 ` Randy Brukardt
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