Re: ada paper critic

[Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>]

Brian Rogoff <bpr@bpr.best.vwh.net> writes:

> On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Immanuel Scholz wrote:
> > Ted Dennison wrote:
> > > Immanuel Scholz wrote:
> > >> (Nevertheless, I think that giving the same syntax to Arrays and
> > >> functions is good, not bad.)
> > >
> > > We've actually had a lot of discussion here about that. Almost everyone
> > > who ever complains about it is an ex-C programmer who's main problem
> > > always boils down to "it doesn't look like C".
> 
> Unsupported ad-hominem argument.

I agree.  I understand the arguments both ways, and I happen to think
Ada got it wrong -- function calls should look different from array
indexing (at least in a language with side effects).  But my opinion on
this point has nothing to do with C.

(To be fair, Ted Dennison said "almost everyone", so we can't disprove
him with two counter-examples.  ;-) )

Anyway, sneering at C programmers won't win converts to superior
languages.

- Bob