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,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-30 20:06:20 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc2.on.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B6620AC.5CBF3E36@home.com> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How to make Ada a dominant language References: <3B6555ED.9B0B0420@sneakemail.com> <9k3l9r$10i2$1@pa.aaanet.ru> <3B656345.64AB603A@sneakemail.com> <9k3oa1$2qg8$1@pa.aaanet.ru> <3B657715.7EC592D9@sneakemail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 03:06:20 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.141.193.224 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc2.on.home.com 996548780 24.141.193.224 (Mon, 30 Jul 2001 20:06:20 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 20:06:20 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10808 Date: 2001-07-31T03:06:20+00:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > In article <3B657715.7EC592D9@sneakemail.com>, Russ Paielli <18k11tm001@sneakemail.com> writes: > > Larry Kilgallen wrote: ...snip... > > I am new to Ada, and I believe that gives me a certain perspective that > > Ada veterans lack. I am making a proposal that could save the best > > programming language around, and all I get is a bunch of irrelevant > > criticism. I'm not sure the above properly attributes the correct authors.. I believe Russ wrote the "I am new to Ada..". To the "I am new to Ada" person: You are sadly deluded if you think that a "python enthused" change request to Ada is going to be accepted. Despite any reasoning that you might have, you are not going to have people with millions of Ada lines of code accept that now they must use new syntax. Creating a new language with the ideas that you've presented, only takes Ada back to some of the things it purposely steered clear of. And I'll add, that the indentation idea that Python uses, IMHO, is definitely "not a good thing" (tm). This news group welcomes enthusiasm, but you need to do some more homework. After you've used and studied Ada95 for a while, then let's see what your ideas look like. Right now, they're not well informed ideas. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://members.home.net/ve3wwg