[Nottingham] Which programming language (RE: O'Reilly Books)
Richard Smedley
rs at m6-it.org
Thu Sep 13 21:37:28 BST 2007
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 20:49 +0100, Steve Caddy wrote:
> Essentially, Ada locks you into getting the dataflow design right
> first time.
Which is why so many people hate it I suppose ;-P
Seriously, I'm trying to find time to investigate further,
is anyone else on the LUG also interested?
> > 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).
Well, you might like to start with the series of papers at:
http://www.adacore.com/home/ada_answers/ada_2005
With a pretty good summary from page 3 onwards of:
http://www.adacore.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/02/Ada05_rational_00.pdf
& OO improvements (especially to compatibility with other langs) at:
http://www.adacore.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/02/Ada05_rational_01.pdf
Cheers,
- Richard
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