From: "G.B." <bauhaus@notmyhomepage.invalid>
Subject: Re: Ada syntax questions
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 10:34:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rs4bmf$478$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bfaef8db-8f57-4a06-b2b4-be091bbfbd11n@googlegroups.com>
On 20.12.20 17:53, Andreas ZEURCHER wrote:
> On Sunday, December 20, 2020 at 2:47:54 AM UTC-6, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> On 2020-12-19 23:11, Andreas ZEURCHER wrote:
>>> On Saturday, December 19, 2020 at 1:37:32 PM UTC-6, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>>>> On 2020-12-19 19:40, Andreas ZEURCHER wrote:
>>
>>>> If they are unsatisfied with the higher abstraction level of Ada, they
>>>> can switch to lower-level languages where implementation details are
>>>> exposed in syntax. The best we can do is to explain why such exposure is
>>>> a bad idea.
>>>
>>> No, Dmitry, that is where you are wrong. In this regard, Ada is the lower-level, grungier, cruder, uncouther programming language, closer to assembly language or ALGOL60.
>> Then we are disagree on the definition of higher level. Mine is the
>> level of abstraction away from calculus toward the problem space entities.
>
> (...) Assembly language and Ada have the same inability to overtly express and enforce a declaration of FP-purity.
Could we drop the Victorian adjectives, though?
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-17 22:39 Ada syntax questions DrPi
2020-12-17 23:18 ` Gabriele Galeotti
2020-12-18 8:26 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2020-12-18 9:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-12-18 16:55 ` Mart van de Wege
2020-12-18 17:38 ` Björn Lundin
2020-12-18 19:35 ` Niklas Holsti
2020-12-20 21:59 ` Keith Thompson
2020-12-22 1:04 ` Randy Brukardt
2020-12-22 8:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-12-23 1:23 ` Randy Brukardt
2020-12-23 8:59 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-12-24 4:06 ` Randy Brukardt
2020-12-24 9:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-12-22 13:48 ` AdaMagica
2020-12-20 21:59 ` Keith Thompson
2020-12-21 8:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-12-18 23:09 ` Stephen Leake
2020-12-19 11:50 ` DrPi
2020-12-19 12:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-12-19 17:13 ` Andreas ZEURCHER
2020-12-19 17:49 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-12-19 18:40 ` Andreas ZEURCHER
2020-12-19 19:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-12-19 22:11 ` Andreas ZEURCHER
2020-12-20 8:47 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-12-20 16:53 ` Andreas ZEURCHER
2020-12-22 0:58 ` Randy Brukardt
2020-12-22 2:39 ` Andreas ZEURCHER
2020-12-22 10:05 ` Stéphane Rivière
2020-12-25 9:34 ` G.B. [this message]
2020-12-19 17:01 ` AdaMagica
2020-12-19 21:51 ` Stephen Leake
2020-12-19 22:20 ` Andreas ZEURCHER
2020-12-20 14:10 ` DrPi
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