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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,9f0bf354542633fd X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d901a50a5adfec3c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Craig Burley Subject: Re: Fortran or Ada? Date: 1998/09/26 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 395056011 References: <36068E73.F0398C54@meca.polymtl.ca> <6u8r5o$aa4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <6uenvf$g9a$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <6uigs3$evu$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Organization: Cygnus Support Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-09-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: dewarr@my-dejanews.com writes: > In article , > Craig Burley wrote: > > > I didn't say I *did* know Ada -- in fact, I don't! > > Perhaps you should learn it :-) Oh, nooooooo kidding! There's *lots* I should go and learn, and I intend to start, sometime soon. Ada's right up there with functional languages, for example. > > In summary: language designers should try and restrict their use > > of narrow lexical distinctions to those areas with which the > > expected audience is already very familiar, and, in other areas, > > ensure that common typographical errors are most likely to cause > > expressions that are immediately discoverable as invalid expressions > > in the language. > > The above paragraph (and the discussion that preceded it) might well be > used as a summary of one important part of the Ada design criteria! I figured as much. And, re-reading the earlier post, indeed someone had indicated `**' was a typo in place of `*' in some kind of type-declaration statement, which led me to believe (perhaps incorrectly) it wasn't in a math expression. FWIW. -- "Practice random senselessness and act kind of beautiful." James Craig Burley, Software Craftsperson burley@gnu.org