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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-30 05:52:09 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed2.onemain.com!feed1.onemain.com!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!206.13.28.144!news.pacbell.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B655995.908A3FE1@sneakemail.com> From: Russ Paielli <18k11tm001@sneakemail.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-20mdk i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How to make Ada a dominant language References: <9k36ae$138k$1@pa.aaanet.ru> <3B654276.4040707@bigfoot.de> <9k3ia9$2cg4$1@pa.aaanet.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 05:56:53 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.194.87.148 X-Complaints-To: abuse@pacbell.net X-Trace: news.pacbell.net 996497528 63.194.87.148 (Mon, 30 Jul 2001 05:52:08 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 05:52:08 PDT Organization: SBC Internet Services Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10732 Date: 2001-07-30T05:56:53-07:00 List-Id: Gary Lisyansky wrote: > > "Gerhard H�ring" wrote in message > news:3B654276.4040707@bigfoot.de... > > > > Python does it both. The code is easy to read and easy to write. And it > > is good for quick scripting tasks, too. > > The core of the answer is "for quick scripting tasks". One can write a well- > readable code in Python, but most code is not of this quality, especially > because of absence of parameter type information. Of course Python is intended for a different type of application than Ada is intended for. I am not proposing for a second that Ada become Python. I am simply proposing that Ada borrow some of Python's elegant syntax. The underlying fundamentals of Ada would not be changed one iota. Russ