From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,42490cad53ee37fa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!trndny07.POSTED!0f19ed38!not-for-mail From: "Frank J. Lhota" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Subject: Re: NOACE- End of the road for Ada? X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2527 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Message-ID: <083Yd.65197$W16.16044@trndny07> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 21:39:08 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 141.154.248.202 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: trndny07 1110490748 141.154.248.202 (Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:39:08 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:39:08 EST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9062 Date: 2005-03-10T21:39:08+00:00 List-Id: "Alexander E. Kopilovich" wrote in message news:mailman.7.1110431487.23655.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org... > Michael Card wrote: > > Think about China. Guess, which complex and purposeful software is easier > to > investigate, modify/adapt, port to other equipment/environment etc. - that > is > written in Ada or that in C++ and/or Java? If they were choosing languages on the basis of lack of readability, they could choose something worse than C++! :) Perl, for starters? Here are languages that are even harder to read: http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace http://www.cliff.biffle.org/esoterica/beatnik.html http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/intercal/ http://www.bigzaphod.org/cow