From: <adaworks@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: generics in Ada 83
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 01:34:15 GMT
Date: 2005-09-20T01:34:15+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rGJXe.399$9E2.124@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wccbr2vpsh2.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com
"Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote in message
news:wccbr2vpsh2.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com...
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> The Ada way makes it easier to understand what the contract _is_.
>
> On the other hand, the C++ way is more powerful.
>
Kinda like the difference between safety-matches and
strike-anywhere matches. When I was a kid in rural
Pennsylvania, we used to call strike-anywhere matches
"barn burners." Hmmmmm. There is an analogy in
there someplace.
Richard Riehle
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-13 13:26 generics in Ada 83 REH
2005-09-13 13:30 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-13 16:25 ` REH
2005-09-13 19:23 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-13 13:50 ` Martin Dowie
2005-09-13 16:30 ` REH
2005-09-13 16:41 ` Martin Dowie
2005-09-13 18:43 ` REH
2005-09-13 19:37 ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-09-13 19:53 ` REH
2005-09-13 16:56 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-09-13 18:53 ` REH
2005-09-13 22:16 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-09-13 22:44 ` REH
2005-09-14 8:14 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2005-09-14 12:40 ` REH
2005-09-14 13:15 ` Hyman Rosen
2005-09-14 14:08 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2005-09-14 15:23 ` Hyman Rosen
2005-09-14 15:41 ` Robert A Duff
2005-09-19 17:58 ` REH
2005-09-20 4:58 ` Hyman Rosen
2005-09-20 12:36 ` REH
2005-09-20 1:34 ` adaworks [this message]
2005-09-20 4:14 ` Jim Rogers
2005-09-21 22:58 ` Robert A Duff
2005-09-22 15:18 ` adaworks
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