Re: += in ada

[dmytrylavrov@fsmail.net (Dmytry Lavrov)]

18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ) wrote in message news:<bebbba07.0310091107.6c0c3716@posting.google.com>...
> Preben Randhol <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org> wrote in message news:<slrnbo7afh.1rc.randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no>...
> > On 2003-10-07, Russ <18k11tm001@sneakemail.com> wrote:
> > > Repeat after me: Augmented assignment is available and WIDELY USED in
> > > C, C++, Java, Perl, and Python, perhaps the 5 most popular
> > > general-purpose programming languages ever designed. Is it *possible*
> > > that 98% of the programmers out there might know *something* that Ada
> > > programmers don't?
98% of ada programmers can code in at least one of listed languages.
And more than 99% of programmers can't code in ada.
Knowledge of averadge ada programmer is highter than average 
C, C++, Java, Perl, Python,and PHP ,at least because there are no
scripting kids in ada,and because ada is not popular.
Look at comp.lang.java,filled with stupid college homework-related
questions.

Here you're saying: let's be with masses,masses can't make mistakes.
i guess,more than 90% of non-school-age population can only
summ,substract,multiply and divide,but big precent was able to do many
cool things like algebraic and even trigs in school.(but some precent
can remember all this things with books)

Let's use c++ and don't touch ada.99% of programmers don't know ada.

I'm is a beginner in ada,moving from Free Pascal(and also i can code
in java and c) where(if FP too) += are supported, and I DON'T WANT +=
.
Even beginners don't want it!

> > 
> > So what? A billion Chinese speak Chinese...
> 
> Does 98% of the world population speak Chinese?
> 
> > Do you want the pointer arithmic of C too?
> 
> Do C, C++, Java, Perl, and Python *all* have pointer arithmetic? Of
> course not. Only C and C++ have it. My point was that all five of
> those languages -- the most popular general-purpose languages in
> current use -- *all* have augmented assignment.
> 
> What am I to make about your missing such a clearly stated point? Do
> you deliberately *try* to miss the point when you don't want to hear
> it?
> 
> > Preben who gets a bit tired of this attitude.
> 
> And I get tired of people who assume that I want augmented assignment
> operators in Ada only because they are in C/C++. I'll tell you
> straight out that I have no fondness for C and C++, so please dump
> that strawman.