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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,79bbf7e359159d0d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-09 18:32:05 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed2.onemain.com!feed1.onemain.com!uunet!dca.uu.net!ash.uu.net!world!bobduff From: Robert A Duff Subject: Re: newbie can't get exceptions to work! Sender: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 01:29:39 GMT References: <25%y6.2364$jz.201607@www.newsranger.com> <3ACDB29E.45B91316@earthlink.net> <3ACEAA1F.E1BF6F@acm.org> Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6684 Date: 2001-04-10T01:29:39+00:00 List-Id: Jeffrey Carter writes: > Almost all of these features date back to Ada 80. Ada 80 blew just about > everything else out of the water in 1980, in terms of expressive power. > These special cases didn't seem important, when there were so many > things you could do with the language that you couldn't do in other > languages. > > Now we're looking back after 20 years. We expect a language to have the > kind of expressive power we find in Ada (though few do), and these > special cases seem jarring. Certainly if we were designing a language > from scratch, after all this experience with Ada, we could avoid many of > them. However, things could be worse than having to use Ada. I'm thinking about these things with 20-20 hindsight. I hope my (minor) complaints about Ada don't come off looking like I'm saying the designers of Ada 83 were stupid. On the contrary! - Bob