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: 103376,1116ece181be1aea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-14 15:44:20 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!small1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp.gbronline.com!news.gbronline.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 17:45:02 -0500 Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 17:45:41 -0500 From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: groleau@freeshell.org Organization: Ain't no organization here! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, es-mx, pt-br, fr-ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <4JqdnR25kazycvmiU-KYgw@gbronline.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.9.86.62 X-Trace: sv3-aL1GKUUbVZ/TLSEsbMkRwkGj4xrBGlcALkujV7yjXVuu2uiqtrBZtUjOq5O64IUa8v/07JCexkuMgOy!VsLtTWiXa3sX9a7OwGrllGrJtxu3uybbCGHDGGybbxVPe247k2hnGoNIKH5goTAOoPwZd3xLjY+7 X-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42500 Date: 2003-09-14T17:45:41-05:00 List-Id: Matthew Heaney wrote: > 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ) writes: >>I note also that C, C++, Java, Perl, and Python, the five more popular >>general purpose languages around today, all have augmented assignment >>operators, and it it is still painfully obvious to me that Ada needs >>them too. But it is also painfully obvious to me that most Ada >>veterans are blind to this reality. Too bad -- for Ada. > > What kind of "augmented" assignment operator did you have in mind? If this is the same Russ that went on and on and on about this some time ago, he's talking about stuff like += *= -= etc. On a related subject, I just got a chuckle from the "job requirements" of an online job posting (note the third word): Experience with modern languages (C/C++, Java, Tcl/Tk, etc) -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau/Wes