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,d274f280c8c4a8b8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-24 22:00:09 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!dca6-feed2.news.digex.net!intermedia!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamfinder.gnilink.net!nwrddc03.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C79D3AA.3090500@mail.com> From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:0.9.8+) Gecko/20020218 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Mainstream Ada References: <3C77CF8C.93F1837@adaworks.com> <3C78943B.9030600@mail.com> <3C79296E.3F2E6DDC@adaworks.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 06:00:05 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.83.251.10 X-Complaints-To: business-support@verizon.com X-Trace: nwrddc03.gnilink.net 1014616805 162.83.251.10 (Mon, 25 Feb 2002 01:00:05 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 01:00:05 EST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20345 Date: 2002-02-25T06:00:05+00:00 List-Id: Richard Riehle wrote: > Clever response, Dr. Rosen, but its intent is rather transparent. > We both know it is a wrong interpretation of my message, and > intended only as a provocation, not as a serious comment. It's just "Mr. Rosen" - I only have a B.E.E. I was really being serious, not satirical, but perhaps I misunderstood what you were trying to say. I thought you were saying that developers choose a language which will allow them to add more features to their code. Did you instead mean that developers choose a lnaguage which has more features? Even so, I think Ada can hold its own for number of features against other languages! As I have said before, I dislike Ada mostly for its looks, not its content. I certainly don't bear the language any ill will. And I don't really think I troll, just tease a little. I will defend C++ against incorrect statements, and vigorously, but there's nothing wrong with that. Thinking about Ada style, I am reminded of some lines from the old filk song, "Write in C" (to the tune of "Let It Be") - I hate the word "procedure", write in C. The government loves Ada, write in C. {ducking} :-)