Re: Advice on selling Ada to a C shop

[Marco <prenom_nomus@yahoo.com>]

On Jul 6, 4:14 am, a...@att.net wrote:

> What people are trying to do is create a PLII or PL2. If people want to
> create a PLII aka "Programming Language II" then they should start from
> scratch and create it.  And stop trying to add the features of one
> language they like into an other language, and in the process destroying
> the beauty of the unmodified original language.  Building PLII is not
> difficult, it start with setting down and make a list of what features
> one like about each language then adopt common features and then add
> those features that are desired. But most people who want a type of PLII
> just think they can modify an existing language and community for that
> language will accept it. The community as a whole does not accept the
> changes they just find another language. So, it is time to tell those
> modifiers that's  enough.  If you want PLII then create it and leave
> the other languages like "Ada" alone.

  Agreed - it is either a function that returns a value or a procedure
that can manipulate state not both