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: 103376,52fd60a337c05842 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-18 07:01:57 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.abs.net!uunet!dca.uu.net!ash.uu.net!world!news From: Robert A Duff Subject: Re: ada paper critic Sender: news@world.std.com (Mr Usenet Himself) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 14:01:31 GMT References: <3D0A399C.EF6F1BD9@acm.org> <3D0B4CCC.7010104@telepath.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26237 Date: 2002-06-18T14:01:31+00:00 List-Id: Brian Rogoff 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