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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,beb0b7471c6440e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-20 08:55:12 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BFA8AE3.48AE4F21@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wwgrol@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: 'Cyclone', a safer C--reinventing the wheel References: <3BFA4095.8325D016@earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 11:54:59 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1006275311 151.168.144.162 (Tue, 20 Nov 2001 10:55:11 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 10:55:11 CST Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16732 Date: 2001-11-20T11:54:59-05:00 List-Id: "chris.danx" wrote: > I'm giving this group until I'm sufficiently well versed in > Haskell/Clean/Dylan (so many choices), then if it's still full of "my > language is better than yours" posts, I'm off (I had planned to write It's true that some Ada fans take this to an extreme, but: 1. Perhaps that's because the irrationality of the Ada bashing majority is so extreme. 2. The particular post you complained about was not an "Ada is better" post. It was expressing disbelief that someone is touting improvements on C as something special when they have been proven in Ada and other languages for over 20 years. -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau