From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: newbie can't get exceptions to work!
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 02:12:38 GMT
Date: 2001-04-10T02:12:38+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wcc7l0t5wq1.fsf@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 86u23yszjo.fsf@acm.org
Laurent Guerby <guerby@acm.org> writes:
> Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> writes:
> > On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Ted Dennison wrote:
> > > That being the case, you'd like to strive for readability, not tersenes.
> >
> > False dichotomy. In many cases, terse notation is more readable.
> >
> > Besides, I imagine English keywords, rather than French, German, Chinese,
> > or Hindi, were chosen for some reason.
Umm, surely Ada keywords are in English because the design of Ada was
done for the United States Department of Defense, which tends to use
English (or at least a dialect of it). It doesn't mean English is
"better" than anything else.
If I design a programming language, the keywords will be in English,
because that's all I know (unfortunately).
The original designer of Ada spoke French as his first language.
- Bob
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2001-04-05 3:19 newbie can't get exceptions to work! Jeff Shipman
2001-04-05 4:25 ` Ed Falis
2001-04-05 11:00 ` martin.m.dowie
2001-04-05 14:21 ` Ted Dennison
2001-04-05 17:50 ` Fraser Wilson
2001-04-05 4:34 ` Jeff Shipman
2001-04-05 4:59 ` Wilhelm Spickermann
2001-04-05 14:14 ` Ted Dennison
2001-04-05 16:37 ` Wilhelm Spickermann
2001-04-06 13:09 ` Marc A. Criley
2001-04-06 15:04 ` Ted Dennison
2001-04-06 16:43 ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-06 17:39 ` Ted Dennison
2001-04-06 21:50 ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-06 20:11 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-06 22:20 ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-06 23:04 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-07 5:48 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-04-10 1:29 ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-07 19:30 ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-07 21:17 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-07 21:25 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-07 22:57 ` David Starner
2001-04-08 12:10 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-08 2:12 ` Larry Hazel
2001-04-08 12:12 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-09 16:20 ` Larry Hazel
2001-04-10 2:38 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-10 3:25 ` James Rogers
2001-04-08 22:18 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-09 15:14 ` Ted Dennison
2001-04-09 17:23 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-09 18:23 ` Laurent Guerby
2001-04-09 19:15 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-10 18:21 ` Laurent Guerby
2001-04-10 19:44 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-11 18:03 ` Laurent Guerby
2001-04-11 18:33 ` Samuel T. Harris
2001-04-14 0:06 ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-12 1:42 ` Mike Silva
2001-04-12 2:38 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-12 23:23 ` Laurent Guerby
2001-04-13 2:44 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-11 13:24 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-11 13:14 ` Mats Karlssohn
2001-04-11 15:08 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-11 21:42 ` Fraser Wilson
2001-04-12 23:55 ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-10 2:12 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2001-04-10 3:47 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-10 13:40 ` Ada keywords (was: Re: newbie can't get exceptions to work!) Marin David Condic
2001-04-10 14:26 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2001-04-09 20:49 ` newbie can't get exceptions to work! Ted Dennison
2001-04-09 21:44 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-09 21:59 ` Ted Dennison
2001-04-10 2:54 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-10 14:00 ` Ted Dennison
2001-04-10 17:44 ` Fraser Wilson
2001-04-10 6:59 ` Mats Karlssohn
2001-04-10 14:18 ` Ted Dennison
2001-04-10 16:27 ` Mark Biggar
2001-04-11 11:55 ` Mats Karlssohn
2001-04-11 14:34 ` Samuel T. Harris
2001-04-11 15:50 ` Pat Rogers
2001-04-12 6:27 ` Mats Karlssohn
2001-04-11 11:49 ` Mats Karlssohn
2001-04-11 15:38 ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-13 16:12 ` Matthew Woodcraft
2001-04-10 1:41 ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-10 3:03 ` James Rogers
2001-04-10 3:58 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-10 21:48 ` Ted Dennison
2001-04-11 15:09 ` Ayende Rahien
2001-04-11 21:57 ` James Rogers
2001-04-11 23:13 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-12 6:33 ` Mats Karlssohn
2001-04-12 16:38 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-17 7:04 ` Mats Karlssohn
2001-04-17 9:08 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2001-04-12 15:16 ` Ted Dennison
2001-04-12 21:22 ` James Rogers
2001-04-10 4:26 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-11 15:30 ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-11 17:33 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-10 1:26 ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-10 2:11 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-04-14 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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2001-04-05 5:26 Christoph Grein
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