From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: why Ada type casting is different from other languages? newType(value) vs. (newType)value
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 12:19:53 -0700
Date: 2014-07-15T12:19:53-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lq3usp$6io$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lq3slq$n75$1@dont-email.me>
On 07/15/2014 11:42 AM, G.B. wrote:
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> The authors seem to think that, for newcomers at least, it is better
> to have different syntax for different things, irrespective of
> experienced linguists' abstract views.
That some people got a book published doesn't mean they know what they're
talking about. In a controlled experiment at West Point, it was determined that
Ada is a better introductory language than Pascal, even though Ada uses
parentheses for everything, while Pascal uses brackets for array indexing.
--
Jeff Carter
"Ah, go away or I'll kill ya."
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-13 1:55 why Ada type casting is different from other languages? newType(value) vs. (newType)value Nasser M. Abbasi
2014-07-13 3:01 ` Shark8
2014-07-13 6:26 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-13 14:33 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-07-13 9:01 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-07-13 9:08 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-07-13 10:20 ` AdaMagica
2014-07-13 10:24 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-07-14 23:36 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-15 18:42 ` G.B.
2014-07-15 19:14 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-07-15 22:47 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-07-15 19:19 ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2014-07-15 23:07 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-07-15 22:00 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-13 14:42 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-07-14 15:25 ` Adam Beneschan
2014-07-14 16:24 ` G.B.
2014-07-14 17:41 ` Simon Wright
2014-07-14 19:41 ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-14 20:51 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-07-14 23:23 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-15 19:22 ` Marius Amado-Alves
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