From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R.Carter" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ichbiah 2022 compiler mode Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2024 21:22:31 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <0001HW.2C89EE78000D25FE306B4D38F@news.individual.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2024 21:22:31 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="16c82b86724282cc632358a313e74f43"; logging-data="328827"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+SnHMsjiA+1hnfHO+lKOtOmLc+1YbHxXs=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:hsLeFC6F+qmFWc86I/D3xJZ4oMk= In-Reply-To: <0001HW.2C89EE78000D25FE306B4D38F@news.individual.net> Content-Language: en-US Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:66318 List-Id: On 2024-09-05 15:49, Bill Findlay wrote: > On 5 Sep 2024, Jeffrey R.Carter wrote > (in article ): > >> "[T]he language [Ada] incorporates many excellent structural >> features which have proved their value in many precursor >> languages ..." >> C. A. R. Hoare > > And he continued: > > "one can look forward to a rapid and widespread improvement in programming > practice, > both from those who use the language and from those who study its concepts > and structures." > > I am familiar with this, as one of the authors of the book > that contains that foreword. 8-) That's signature 181. -- Jeff Carter "[T]he language [Ada] incorporates many excellent structural features which have proved their value in many precursor languages ..." C. A. R. Hoare 180