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 22:21:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc2.on.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B68E348.557ACFFF@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: <3B676974.C80C72E5@sneakemail.com> <3B67E5A3.773CF097@baesystems.com> <3B6828B3.8CA0B2DB@sneakemail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 05:21:09 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.141.193.224 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc2.on.home.com 996729669 24.141.193.224 (Wed, 01 Aug 2001 22:21:09 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 22:21:09 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11034 Date: 2001-08-02T05:21:09+00:00 List-Id: Russ wrote: > 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 This means that you want to make Ada95 and intermediate language; I don't think that would be received too well; This adds a software layer that adds complexity; Complexity not only breeds bugs; It breeds contempt; Just my $0.02 worth; -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://members.home.net/ve3wwg