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 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.13.213.10 with SMTP id x10mr13089621ywd.46.1453657473475; Sun, 24 Jan 2016 09:44:33 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.182.153.2 with SMTP id vc2mr165864obb.11.1453657473438; Sun, 24 Jan 2016 09:44:33 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!6no6783016qgy.0!news-out.google.com!l1ni5941igd.0!nntp.google.com!h5no8755549igh.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 09:44:33 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=75.74.189.161; posting-account=yiWntAoAAAC1KqC_shmxJYv07B9l6LNU NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.74.189.161 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <4f05d3a6-84ab-4076-be96-e40195d1d317@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: an idea to make Ada popular: Aython? From: David Botton Injection-Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 17:44:33 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:29221 Date: 2016-01-24T09:44:33-08:00 List-Id: If you change the syntax it isn't Ada. A large part of what makes Ada, Ada = _is_ the syntax. There are some syntax blunders that may have been avoided = in the past but is what it is now. I for one would stop using Ada if it eve= n smelled liked Python. > As I've said > before, Ada is a S/W-engineering language. Since 98% of developers aren't= S/W > engineers, nothing will make S/W-engineering languages popular. Exactly. The point is to make Ada more popular amongst those engineers in g= eneral and in particular to open Ada's use in to new areas and avenues. The= problem is that there has been a strong effort to kill its general purpose= use and drive it more towards being SPARK. David Botton