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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: FORTRAN bug(was Re: C++ vs. Ada -- Is Ada loosing?)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.170013.18494@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:00:13 GMT
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- In <OBRY.92Dec11164203@cheesesteak.flash.bellcore.com> obry@flash.bellcore.com (Pascal Obry) writes:
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- >Fred,
-
- >> Single character ones? Probably not, but that just indicates that Ada
- >> is incredibly more verbose than C. One of the things I DISlike about
- >> it, by the way.
-
- >Why do you use english ?
-
- Because it's what everyone else speaks? If this is your defense of
- Ada, it is a poor one. If you want something that 'everybody can
- read', you should be using COBOL. It was designed with the idea in
- mind that MANAGERS should be able to look at a program and tell what
- it does without knowing the language.
-
- >( > @ - + / ~ $
-
- >==============================
- >Because I'am the only one to know this language I put below the dictionary :
-
- >> this
- >( try
- >$ word
- >+ it
- >, -
- >/ is
- >@ language
- >~ without
- >==============================
-
-
- >I like Ada because you can *read* it. And this seem to be one of the most
- >important thing about a language. With goods choices for the identifier, you
- >can read an Ada progam like a text, you don't have to translate what you read.
-
- Golly gee whiz, you have to actually KNOW THE LANGUAGE to read it.
- Horrors! Oddly enough, I expect anyone reading a program and
- expecting to understand it to be able to read the language. If you
- hand somebody a bunch of Ada code, they're going to be able to read
- and understand it? Gee, how is that going to work? They're going to
- know what pragmas do, things like packages and generics, etc.? I
- don't THINK so.
-
- >You write a program one time, but how many time you read it ?
-
- As many times as I need to? Why is this a problem?
-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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- Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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