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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 11232c,e59a9d893a249e86 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-18 01:25:40 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!tar-alcarin.cbb-automation.DE!not-for-mail From: Dmitry A. Kazakov Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,misc.misc Subject: Re: Outside view (still): Development process in the Ada community Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:25:37 +0200 Message-ID: <6e0tbucgrb92sb79kr8hj6tjg71ddal407@4ax.com> References: <3CB46975.90408@snafu.de> <5ee5b646.0204171415.18ac5e85@posting.google.com> <99c4aee4a9ea33ca8fbe1e634b3b4f14.48257@mygate.mailgate.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: tar-alcarin.cbb-automation.de (212.79.194.111) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1019118337 4642760 212.79.194.111 (16 [77047]) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22712 misc.misc:6573 Date: 2002-04-18T10:25:37+02:00 List-Id: On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 01:19:27 GMT, "Pat Rogers" wrote: >"Kent Paul Dolan" wrote in message >news:99c4aee4a9ea33ca8fbe1e634b3b4f14.48257@mygate.mailgate.org... >> "Robert Dewar" wrote: >> >> > What makes languages brittle is when they accumulate ill thought out >> > junk that does not work well and cannot be easily modified. >> >> And what makes languages rigid is that they fail to incorporate good >> ideas that do work out well and have been widely praised. >> >> [Or was your earlier denial that Ada ignores inputs from the programming >> community a hint that you'd somehow managed to sneak in programming by >> contract, high power text parsing capabilities, et al., to the Ada >> language standard as long ago promoted here by dozens to hundreds of >> correspondents, and me not noticed?] > >And why would I want high-powered text parsing in my hard real-time embedded >application? I could be well possible. An example is a real project of autopilot I am involved in. It is an embedded soft real-time application. By the nature of autopilot, it should have some AI gears. Here you are. --- Regards, Dmitry Kazakov www.dmitry-kazakov.de