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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10261c,cfbb90c56a313e70 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,cfbb90c56a313e70 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: marcov@toad.stack.nl (Marco van de Voort) Subject: Re: From extended Pascals to Ada 95 guide Date: 2000/08/28 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 663458161 References: <8o3s2a$9ph$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8o4bfq$v0h$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net> <8obv01$7hu1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <39A991F3.A8D8BED7@easystreet.com> <39AA5EC0.A9B8AB6A@maths.unine.ch> Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (FreeBSD) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.pascal.misc Date: 2000-08-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <39AA5EC0.A9B8AB6A@maths.unine.ch>, Gautier wrote: > >> >The principal criterium is size of the language definition/reference >> >manual. Modula-3's is under 60 pages, IIRC, much smaller than Ada's. >> >And Wirth was some kind of advisor to the M3 design team. > >Marco: > >> Why is that the principal criterium? > >Wirth's conception - it appears - is to have a minimalist language definition, >say a BNF codification, some explanations, and bye bye. It's to maintain >"simplicity". It's true, it makes books lighter. Sure, back then :-) But I'm not using standard pascal, but other dialects with more functionality (and probably thicker specs). Like Object Pascal (Delphi's language) >As a result, you get a myriad of proprietary dialects, libraries, >I/O routines etc. IMHO The summit was M2 with different, uncompatible casings >for WriteLn ! I think a language specification and a library specification are two separate things.