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 09:01:12 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsxfer.eecs.umich.edu!pln-w!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!206.13.28.144!news.pacbell.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B6828B3.8CA0B2DB@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> <3B67E5A3.773CF097@baesystems.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 09:05:07 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.194.87.148 X-Complaints-To: abuse@pacbell.net X-Trace: news.pacbell.net 996681667 63.194.87.148 (Wed, 01 Aug 2001 09:01:07 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 09:01:07 PDT Organization: SBC Internet Services Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10954 Date: 2001-08-01T09:05:07-07:00 List-Id: David Gillon wrote: > > 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. I would agree with that philosophy if the dialects were incompatible, but the dialect I am proposing could be automatically translated back and forth with standard Ada95. Russ