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 22:05:22 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc2.on.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B663C92.3F3BAA9C@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> <3B6620AC.5CBF3E36@home.com> <3B662F98.5ABFF9B6@sneakemail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 05:05:22 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.141.193.224 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc2.on.home.com 996555922 24.141.193.224 (Mon, 30 Jul 2001 22:05:22 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 22:05:22 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10823 Date: 2001-07-31T05:05:22+00:00 List-Id: Russ Paielli wrote: > "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 Then you will have read my sentence that "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." But, you selectively chose not to address that issue. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://members.home.net/ve3wwg