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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Teaching C/C++ from Ada perspective?
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Semantic coupling is (I think) a strict subset of compile-time coupling. How 
big a subset is what matters.

                       Randy.

"Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net> wrote in message 
news:9c874b9d-18c8-43bc-ab90-66d2fc446758@googlegroups.com...
On Thursday, July 5, 2018 at 1:53:31 PM UTC-5, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> "Maciej Sobczak" <see.my.homepage@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:c91c4183-a8fe-4b7a-858e-616728fbe844@googlegroups.com...
> ...
> >That is, this hypothetical possibility that you described (and that no
> >vendor cared to reap during the last 30 years) does not make Ada
> >any better language than C++ (in this particular regard).
>
> This statement is completely False: the Rational environment did take
> advantage of these possibilities decades ago. (I presume the version
> available from PTC still does.) As recently discussed here, people who 
> used
> that development environment tended to be very happy; perhaps this was one
> of the factors?
>
> In any case, semantic coupling is many times more important than
> compile-time coupling, since it causes actual maintenance problems. 
> Perhaps
> focusing on that would make the differences more apparent???

What would semantic coupling that lacks a syntactic* representation look 
like in Ada [with at least a smidgeon of wise & good, I hope]-or in C++ for 
that matter [worse, I suspect])?

* and thus doesn't appear in compile-time coupling, which is what we have 
discussed so far