"Russ" <18k11tm001@sneakemail.com> wrote in message
news:bebbba07.0311022159.345d7cab@posting.google.com...
> OK, I think I'm starting to get it. Redundant keystrokes are what make
> Ada the great language it is! I guess I was just too stubborn to see
> that sooner. Now that I see the light, let me propose a way to use
> even more redundant keystrokes:
>
>    with My_Great_Package;
>    use My_Great_Package;
>    Yes_I_really_mean_use My_Great_Package;
>    No_I_am_not_kidding_use My_Great_Package;
>    Did_you_read_that_correctly_use My_Great_Package;
>    Oh_and_dont_forget_with My_Great_Package;
>    Oh_by_the_way_I_think_Ill_use_another_language My_Great_Package;
>    because_this_one_is_ridiculous My_Great_Package;
>
*** If you want to write this series of withs and uses, be my guess, but if
you think that's what Ada is all about, you need to get back to basics.

> Customizing your editor to automate this should be a breeze, and this
> will make Ada rock!
>
*** No that's not what makes Ada rocks, what makes ada rock is the many
errors it can detect at compile time which helps Ada (unlike C, C++ Pascal
and you can continue the list here) produce finalized applications much
sooner than you could ever hope for in C or C++.  It's also all the
supported software engineering principles added to the language to make it
much easier than C or C++ to manage itself.  See my ada advocacy page if you
want a list, but you wont be able to tell me that anything I mention in
there isn't true. take a look at the links I got there in the last section
of the advocacy too for even more details.

> It's really painful to see a great language die of overzealous
> followers.

Die?  Maybe you should have been the one to contact the compiler vendors
instead of me ;-).  we'll see what dies when it does.  We'll talk again
then.  I come from the C++ world too you know, and shorter keywords did not
contribute to me staying with C++ one single bit it was more the other way
around.

You think all the support C++ currently has today will give it eternal life
or something?  As I keep on saying, C++ and Java mosty (but other languages
too) became popular for all the wrong reasons, all based on a "monkey see,
monkey doo" principle.  Today, they are beginning to realize that, I know I
did, and I know I'm not the only one of the corporate world.


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