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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,447bd1cf7a88c198 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-04 05:48:41 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!216.227.56.88.MISMATCH!telocity-west!TELOCITY!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!netnews.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net!newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3A5470F0.A46C9F38@earthlink.net> From: "Marc A. Criley" Organization: Quadrus Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Do we need "Mission-Critical" software? Was: What to Do? References: <3A4F5A4A.9ABA2C4F@chicagonet.net> <3A4F759E.A7D63F3F@netwood.net> <3A50ABDF.3A8F6C0D@acm.org> <92qdnn$jfg$1@news.huji.ac.il> <3A50C371.8B7B871@home.com> <3A51EC04.91353CE7@uol.com.br> <3A529C97.2CA4777F@home.com> <3A53CB9E.EA7CF86C@uol.com.br> <3A5466DE.811D43A5@acm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 13:48:27 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 158.252.122.226 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 978616107 158.252.122.226 (Thu, 04 Jan 2001 05:48:27 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 05:48:27 PST Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3651 Date: 2001-01-04T13:48:27+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > > Another problem still remains. Despite everyone's best efforts, there still > remains a lot of perception that Ada is "A Bad Thing" based on all sorts of > misconceptions and odd preferences on the part of many programmers. You just say > the name and you can draw sneers of derision from many people who couldn't even > recognize the syntax of the language if they saw it. Maybe a name change would > help? Make Ada0x become Augusta0x? "Hey! We have this whole brandy-new > programming language called 'Augusta' and it has a lot of spiffy features. Try it > out!" >From time to time I've half-seriously toyed with the idea of defining a programming language that was a thin facade over Ada and that had a C/C++/Java flavor. Y'know, braces, "throw" instead of "raise", making procedure and function syntax conform to the C style, adding extensions for defining range constraints and stuff in a way that maintained the C look and so on. It would then be a mechanical translation between "Augusta" and Ada, so one could use GNAT to compile it, trapping any error messages and translating them to Augusta terminology as well. Now there's a language: Strongly typed, built in concurrency, rigorously defined templates, strong support for system programming and multi-language support, and you don't have to give up your knowledge of C/C++/Java in order to use it! :-) Marc A. Criley Senior Staff Engineer Quadrus Corporation www.quadruscorp.com