[Nottingham] Which programming language (RE: O'Reilly Books)

[Steve Caddy]

Richard Smedley wrote:

> ADA95 on GNU/Linux (and gnat - The GNU Ada compiler), might make 
> a good LUG talk. I'd certainly be interested :-)

You really think? There are some interesting concepts that I could talk about, 
such as Ada's true enumeration... blows the rather weak attempt that C provides 
into the water. Mind you, Ada's strong typing makes Pascal look like a wet 
weekend. Essentially, Ada locks you into getting the dataflow design right 
first time.

> Have you looked at the newly-OO ADA2005 yet?

Not seen 2005 yet. I'll have to see if I can get a new copy of Barnes or 
something like that. Ada95 is OO (or that was the intention). I have no idea 
what new features 2005 has... that would be an interesting talk (for me to 
listen to).

Steve

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