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: 2001-08-01 04:20:20 PST Message-ID: <3B67E5A3.773CF097@baesystems.com> Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 12:18:59 +0100 From: David Gillon Organization: BAE SYSTEMS Avionics (Rochester) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: rc3284.rochstr.gmav.gecm.com X-Trace: 1 Aug 2001 12:09:22 GMT, rc3284.rochstr.gmav.gecm.com Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!193.251.151.101!opentransit.net!fr.clara.net!heighliner.fr.clara.net!nerim.net!grolier!btnet-peer0!btnet-feed5!btnet!newreader.ukcore.bt.net!pull.gecm.com!rc3284.rochstr.gmav.gecm.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10934 Date: 2001-08-01T12:18:59+01:00 List-Id: Russ wrote: > Furthermore, I think the idea of having another "dialect" of Ada is an > innovative concept with real potential. If you reject it out hand, you > simply have a closed mind. Allowing a dialect of Ada is directly contrary to one of Ada's fundamental design concepts. Rejecting the idea isn't the knee-jerk idea you seem to think. Look up the concepts behind the Ada Compiler Validation suite. > All those semicolons are > nothing more than a lot of noise. They are litter in your code, and if > you never minded them at all, then your code is probably filled with > lots of other litter too. If so, I hope it is not being used in any > safety-critical systems. If you don't recognise the utility of semicolons then you may need to rethink what is desirable in safety-critical code. One thing safety-critical code can't afford is ambiguity as that may conceal an error. The semicolon says emphatically 'I want to end this line here, it is complete'. I'd much rather a syntactically significant semicolon than syntactically significant white space.... -- David Gillon