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: 2001-01-06 12:31:05 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!216.218.236.179.MISMATCH!news!news.he.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!logbridge.uoregon.edu!cyclone-west.rr.com!news.rr.com!news-west.rr.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!news.mindspring.net!not-for-mail From: Lao Xiao Hai Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Do we need "Mission-Critical" software? Was: What to Do? Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 12:23:00 -0800 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <3A577EA4.72A9CC01@ix.netcom.com> 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> <3A5470F0.A46C9F38@earthlink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 3f.35.b3.93 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 6 Jan 2001 20:25:47 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3715 Date: 2001-01-06T20:25:47+00:00 List-Id: "Marc A. Criley" wrote: > 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. Congratulations! You've just invented C#. :-) Richard Riehle