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: 2001-08-01 00:28:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed2.onemain.com!feed1.onemain.com!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!206.13.28.183!nnrp5-w.sbc.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B67B0BC.F51C4CB4@sneakemail.com> From: Russ <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: <3B676974.C80C72E5@sneakemail.com> <9ff447f2.0107312310.4bfdadf0@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 00:33:16 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.194.87.148 X-Complaints-To: abuse@pacbell.net X-Trace: nnrp5-w.sbc.net 996650887 63.194.87.148 (Wed, 01 Aug 2001 00:28:07 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 00:28:07 PDT Organization: SBC Internet Services Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10922 Date: 2001-08-01T00:33:16-07:00 List-Id: Adrian Hoe wrote: > > Russ <18k11tm001@sneakemail.com> wrote in message news:<3B676974.C80C72E5@sneakemail.com>... > > Well, I guess I touched some raw nerves with my proposal to clean up > > Ada's syntax. I certainly appreciate the feedback. > > > > I have come to the conclusion that my first item (eliminating the "end" > > keyword and making the indentation structure an inherent part of the > > syntax, as in Python) is NOT a good idea after all. The "end" lines > > really do help with readability, particularly for long procedures that > > end on a different page than they started. > > > > However, I still stand by the other items in my proposal. I think > > semicolons should be essentially eliminated, > > I still think a semicolon is nice It serves as a punctuation > indicating an end of the statement and the beginning of next How does > this paragraph looks like to you Taking away punctuations from written > text makes reading difficult Certainly people will likely to make > mistake while reading This is an analogy example to your proposition > to remove semicolon from Ada But if almost every sentence were on a separate line, you wouldn't need punctuation to mark their end. Besides that; I think; too many; punctuation marks; make text; look cluttered; What; do; you; think?; ;') Russ