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,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11232c,877ba3d67e73c6c3 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-12 14:17:21 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: <3CB74ECE.D65F855C@despammed.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.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,misc.misc Subject: Re: Rant! (was) Development process in the Ada community References: <3CB46975.90408@snafu.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 16:17:02 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1018646241 151.168.144.162 (Fri, 12 Apr 2002 16:17:21 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 16:17:21 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22451 misc.misc:6267 Date: 2002-04-12T16:17:02-05:00 List-Id: > Where are the parallel processing features _in the language_, the robust > and powerful string parsing features _in the language_, the "programming > by contract" features _in the language_, the standard higher level math > libraries _in the language_, knowledge representation _in the langauge_, > the SEI CMM model turned directly into a _standard_IDE _in the > language_, the standard DoD and telecom community communication > protocols, all _in the language_? Many of your complaints have some merit. This one however, can be applied to any language today. How many languages have TWO of these features? Ada at least has one and it would have two if concurrency were added to the list. -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau