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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,78e482034cf71a6e X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.224.117.143 with SMTP id r15mr12711281qaq.1.1350518643593; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:04:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.28.45 with SMTP id y13mr3343471vdg.10.1350518643562; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:04:03 -0700 (PDT) Path: r17ni36921179qap.0!nntp.google.com!l8no3734127qao.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:04:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.201.93.131; posting-account=aCLEfwoAAAAOAatsIFtV_Z_eteRd3roE NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.201.93.131 References: <397057cf-1aa5-4dbb-820a-79d8aeee4134@googlegroups.com> <1f1fe619-0478-4a75-acef-6f3234265a9b@googlegroups.com> <507c0b98$0$6630$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net> <119c7543-b671-477e-bede-0e71a78a7dd2@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <6cafec1f-d06b-44d9-ade9-3f4a57236471@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Promoting Ada via facebook/google+ .... From: montezf@gmail.com Injection-Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:04:03 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: 2012-10-17T17:04:03-07:00 List-Id: > Ah, now there we part company. > > I used to be a cow-orker of the inventors of Haskell, who got up to their > > nefarious activitits two offices along from me. > > > > It surprises me that soemone who appreciates Ada also subscribes to the cult > > of 'concision', which is so antithetical to the view of programming as a > > human activity. 8-) Well sometimes we do get a little crazy on the operators I do admit. But I see Ada as a natural companion to Haskell. To me, Haskell and Ada make as much sense as Haskell and C, well if it were not for the abundance of libraries.