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 X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-30 20:17:40 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc2.on.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B662354.DD25195F@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: <9k36ae$138k$1@pa.aaanet.ru> <3B654276.4040707@bigfoot.de> <9k3ia9$2cg4$1@pa.aaanet.ru> <3B655995.908A3FE1@sneakemail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 03:17:40 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.141.193.224 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc2.on.home.com 996549460 24.141.193.224 (Mon, 30 Jul 2001 20:17:40 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 20:17:40 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10809 Date: 2001-07-31T03:17:40+00:00 List-Id: Russ Paielli wrote: > 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. Some of us don't find Python to be "elegant". > The underlying fundamentals of Ada would not be changed one > iota. > > Russ -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://members.home.net/ve3wwg