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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,253505146ffff940 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Wes Groleau Subject: Re: The greatest feature of the language is .... Date: 2000/10/05 Message-ID: <39DCDAF5.A6369C4F@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 678005462 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <39DCBA28.E504523B@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> X-Accept-Language: en,es,fr,pt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 970775294 151.168.144.162 (Thu, 05 Oct 2000 15:48:14 EDT) Organization: Raytheon Company MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 15:48:14 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-10-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > >What is the ONE capability of Ada you would most want to ensure is > >in the new language? > > Why just ONE ? Because I can't afford to process millions of words from hundreds of enthusiasts of either language. So I'm asking for what whoever would MOST want. > >I have no intention of inventing a new language. This is just my > >way of making a comparison. > > How can you make a comparison based on this? If twenty people say "precondition assertions" and five people say "separation of spec and body" and NONE say subtypes with range constraints, that tells you something, right? Plus, I am not an Eiffel wiz, so I might learn something about Eiffel I didn't know before. -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau