Re: NOACE- End of the road for Ada?

[Wes Groleau <groleau+news@freeshell.org>]

adaworks@sbcglobal.net wrote:
> The fuss English speakers make about
> the order of words for programming
> syntax is artificial for every language,
> and not necessarily the way the rest
> of the world does it.

But he makes a good point about not being schizo about it
within a single language.  I'll have to admit I never noticed
the inconsistency of task/package/function/procedure coming before
the name and <type>/constant coming after.

But I did often notice the inconsistency of 'end' being sometimes
_required_ to identify what it was ending, sometimes being _allowed_
to, and sometimes being _forbidden_ to.

-- 
Wes Groleau
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