home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!ucbvax!ROO.FIT.EDU!SAHARBAUGH
- From: SAHARBAUGH@ROO.FIT.EDU
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
- Subject: Ada does what it says?
- Message-ID: <9212200101.AA00904@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu>
- Date: 19 Dec 92 23:53:00 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Distribution: world
- Organization: The Internet
- Lines: 21
-
- Pascal writes:
- Anyhow this is only one part of the readability. The low-level readability or
- instruction readability. I don't mean that an Ada algorithm of many lines will
- be easy to understand at the first look. But at least, I think it will be
- easy to follow line by line what it does.
- An Ada program does what it says.
-
- Pascal.
-
- --
- I suggest this experiment. Open either volume 1 or volume
- 2 of Brian and Mendel's book, at random to any page and see
- if you can predict the legal conseqence of running any of the
- examples they present. Do this several times and then report
- if you you still stand by your statement that "An Ada program does what
- it says".
- Their book was a real eye opener to me. It showed me the folly
- of trying to talk to a finite state machine using a textual
- language patterned after human natural languages.
- sam harbaugh
- ---
-