From: Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com>
Subject: Re: Ragged Array Proposal
Date: 1999/09/27
Date: 1999-09-27T23:16:03+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <t7zoy8vt8x.fsf@calumny.jyacc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7siirf$slh$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:
> "more complicated" /= longer
>
> Actually the C version is quite a bit more complex, because of
> the rather peculiar rules about whether string pointers are
> or are not constants, and about the issue of whether
> "abc" == "abc" (in general of course the answer in C is no)
>
> It looks simpler, but that can hide a lot of sins :-)
Like I said, I don't have proper Ada intuition. Frankly, for all its
supposed readability, looking at Ada code makes my eyes and my brain
swim. I think it's because Ada uses too many words and not enough
symbols. I've felt that way ever since I first saw Ada code lo those
many years ago, and I still feel so today.
I would certainly say that C's type system is simpler than Ada's.
The C ragged array example is completely simple. Granted, you have
to know C, but that's true of any language.
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1999-09-22 0:00 ` Ragged Array Proposal Ted Dennison
1999-09-22 0:00 ` Ray Blaak
1999-09-23 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-09-23 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-09-23 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-09-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen [this message]
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1999-09-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-23 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-23 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-09-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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