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: 103376,c63aa81a67eceb8f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Hyman Rosen Subject: Re: Ragged Array Proposal Date: 1999/09/27 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 530072411 Sender: hymie@calumny.jyacc.com References: <37e7c08e@eeyore.callnetuk.com> <7satei$e2q$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <37EA4E91.1D4D1FC@averstar.com> <37eaa24b@eeyore.callnetuk.com> <37ebb11e@eeyore.callnetuk.com> <7siirf$slh$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com X-Trace: news.panix.com 938474163 19409 209.49.126.226 (27 Sep 1999 23:16:03 GMT) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070096 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.96) Emacs/20.3 NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Sep 1999 23:16:03 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-09-27T23:16:03+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar 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.