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 22:08:49 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc2.on.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B663D60.2AF0A8A0@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> <3B662A07.966963CF@sneakemail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 05:08:48 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.141.193.224 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc2.on.home.com 996556128 24.141.193.224 (Mon, 30 Jul 2001 22:08:48 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 22:08:48 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10824 Date: 2001-07-31T05:08:48+00:00 List-Id: Russ Paielli wrote: > Pascal Obry wrote: > > Russ Paielli <18k11tm001@sneakemail.com> writes: > > Are you serious ! You are "new to Ada", well you say so, and you are just > > trying to "make a proposal" to make it the best language ! So please learn Ada > > first then you'll be able to fix it. > > I am not saying anything about Ada fundamentals. As far as I know, they > are great. That is, in fact, why I even care about the syntax. And I > don't think I need to be an expert to comment on the syntax. Ada is like > a modern car with a fabulous drivetrain and suspension, but an ugly > body. How well do you think such a car would sell? And you don't need to > be an expert to see that something is wrong. > > Everyone on this thread seems to think that syntax is completely > superficial. Well, it is in a sense, but it is also the interfact that > the language presents to the programmer every working minute, and that > is important. all I am asking is, why not just get it right? > > Russ Russ, the Jeep is a vehicle with excellent drive train, but is has an ugly body (of course beauty is in the eye of...). Yet, Jeeps are very popular now.... so much for that analogy. ;-) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://members.home.net/ve3wwg