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On Thursday, 14 June 2018 22:00:24 UTC+1, Randy Brukardt  wrote:
> "Shark8" <> wrote in message=20
> news:1b03e4ff-daf1-4c13-84ef-13aec1ba96e9@googlegroups.com...
> >IMO, the rise to prominence of Unix and C [and arguably C++] is the wors=
t=20
> >thing that happened

TBH, standardising on an OS API is not a bad idea, the fact they did it bas=
ed on C and it's issues was a bad idea. The fact that Unix *was* originally=
 open and availbale to pretty much all was a good thing, but when AT&T (I t=
hink) who revoked that, not a good move.


> >"advanced" continuous integration, or the cost of using the FS as a DB, =
or=20
> >the costs of
> >moronically considering unstructured text as THE appropriate/native form=
at=20
> >for storing
> >programs].
>=20
> While I agree with your basic premise, I'm dubious that there is a better=
=20
> format than unstructured text for programs. There were many such=20
> alternatives explored in the 1980's, and they all had the property of mak=
ing=20
> editing more complex. (I tried one for a while when a vendor wanted us to=
=20

I agree that the whole idea that the source should be a DB is a bad idea fr=
om the outset. The idea of the APSE was hated from the outset, pretty much =
every idea that Shark8 has about bringing Ada "back" is from the original b=
ad ideas that everyone hated and there are numerous papers on what was bad =
at the time. Time to move on and not repeat the mistakes of the past, espec=
ially where Ada is concerned.

Luke.