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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC 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!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Wes Groleau Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: NOACE- End of the road for Ada? Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 22:45:14 -0500 Organization: Ain't no organization here! Message-ID: <39v15iF5mer5kU1@individual.net> References: Reply-To: groleau+news@freeshell.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net klsKafRhn7OgTVTBuhR0zQPQy46kAu0rX27MvdHf92gzQB15fZ User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Macintosh/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9580 Date: 2005-03-17T22:45:14-05:00 List-Id: 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 /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 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^ A UNIX signature isn't a return address, it's the ASCII equivalent ^ ^ of a black velvet clown painting. It's a rectangle of carets ^ ^ surrounding a quote from a literary giant of weeniedom like ^ ^ Heinlein or Dr. Who. ^ ^ -- Chris Maeda ^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^