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-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-30 21:10:23 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!206.13.28.143!news.pacbell.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B662F98.5ABFF9B6@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: <3B6555ED.9B0B0420@sneakemail.com> <9k3l9r$10i2$1@pa.aaanet.ru> <3B656345.64AB603A@sneakemail.com> <9k3oa1$2qg8$1@pa.aaanet.ru> <3B657715.7EC592D9@sneakemail.com> <3B6620AC.5CBF3E36@home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 21:10:00 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.194.87.148 X-Complaints-To: abuse@pacbell.net X-Trace: news.pacbell.net 996552305 63.194.87.148 (Mon, 30 Jul 2001 21:05:05 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 21:05:05 PDT Organization: SBC Internet Services Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10818 Date: 2001-07-30T21:10:00-07:00 List-Id: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" wrote: > > 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: That's me. > 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). Apparently you did not read my proposal very clearly. It would not require a single line of Ada to be rewritten, nor would it require any Ada programmer to stop using Ada95 syntax. I may be naive, but I am not completely clueless. Russ