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: 103376,92c39a3be0a7f17d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-03 00:27:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamfinder.gnilink.net!nwrddc01.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C81DF1F.9000503@mail.com> From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:0.9.8+) Gecko/20020216 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Future with Ada References: <3wdH7.20135$xS6.32614@www.newsranger.com> <9tqete0gqc@drn.newsguy.com> <3C0924D6.2B5A3087@adaworks.com> <250220022121494455%thehouseofcards@remove.this.part.mac.com> <3C7B0B13.3080003@worldnet.att.net> <3C7D1C89.2000803@home.com> <3C7E7CAD.7070504@mail.com> <3C7FB9D2.D9C6E055@boeing.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 08:26:59 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.83.250.232 X-Complaints-To: business-support@verizon.com X-Trace: nwrddc01.gnilink.net 1015144019 162.83.250.232 (Sun, 03 Mar 2002 03:26:59 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 03:26:59 EST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20715 Date: 2002-03-03T08:26:59+00:00 List-Id: Jeffrey Carter wrote: > No, it's primarily the difference between coders and software engineers. You mean because software engineers value conciseness and economy of expression, they prefer braces, while coders, who get paid by the line, prefer the wordier languages and begin/end?