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 2002:ac8:6752:: with SMTP id n18-v6mr3642075qtp.62.1530125352973; Wed, 27 Jun 2018 11:49:12 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a0c:9d91:: with SMTP id s17-v6mr371100qvd.3.1530125352882; Wed, 27 Jun 2018 11:49:12 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!feeder4.usenet.farm!feed.usenet.farm!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!h2-v6no921724qtp.0!news-out.google.com!u13-v6ni391qtg.0!nntp.google.com!h2-v6no921721qtp.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 11:49:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <31e1a40f-5c54-42d9-958d-ea706e1783ca@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=47.185.195.62; posting-account=zwxLlwoAAAChLBU7oraRzNDnqQYkYbpo NNTP-Posting-Host: 47.185.195.62 References: <584564c2-9f64-4965-b045-535cdaf899c0@googlegroups.com> <7cb22c58-3009-47f0-8fe7-62f3cd61785d@googlegroups.com> <1879145989.551211041.811077.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> <06e9a2de-7d05-41ce-a459-c39855d429fd@googlegroups.com> <25267926-202c-4ae3-821a-097c1c27697a@googlegroups.com> <1e96b53e-b66c-49da-9c9d-5e99dbd2b505@googlegroups.com> <0de140f5-9092-4012-b57b-64a7e306786d@googlegroups.com> <758b6ade-5303-46ff-be52-9d96c6b1f480@googlegroups.com> <31e1a40f-5c54-42d9-958d-ea706e1783ca@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <7386bde0-7fa0-4409-8034-23bab252664d@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Why are Ada compilers difficult to write ? From: "Dan'l Miller" Injection-Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 18:49:12 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:53386 Date: 2018-06-27T11:49:12-07:00 List-Id: On Wednesday, June 27, 2018 at 12:53:06 PM UTC-5, Olivier Henley wrote: > The federation of "who/when/where/how" of most C++ features is extremely = schizophrenic compared to > Ada high level tasking which is arguably mature, well documented (every b= ooks, not articles), clean and > coherent within the rest of the language. Yes, I agree. That concurs with various recent postings that I am making o= ver on the =E2=80=9CAda successor language=E2=80=9D thread regarding how th= e landmine field in C++ occurs over time. Bjarne himself is starting to pu= blicly state similar sentiments about C++ language features not being desig= ned to work together and even language features in isolation being =E2=80= =9Chalf-baked=E2=80=9D (his term) internally within their own proposal: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/18/bjarne_stroustrup_c_plus_plus