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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-02 13:35:30 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!newsfeed.esat.net!194.125.2.178.MISMATCH!news.iol.ie!not-for-mail From: Barry Kelly Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How to make Ada a dominant language Message-ID: <859jmtosmops92ejsktt7pmoic8n7lskpj@4ax.com> References: <3B676974.C80C72E5@sneakemail.com> <9ff447f2.0107312313.666dea54@posting.google.com> <9k92j4$n6j$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B6842AD.1C56ECBE@sneakemail.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 20:35:27 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.125.48.108 X-Complaints-To: abuse@iol.ie X-Trace: news.iol.ie 996784527 194.125.48.108 (Thu, 02 Aug 2001 21:35:27 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 21:35:27 BST Organization: Ireland On-Line Customer Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11136 Date: 2001-08-02T20:35:27+00:00 List-Id: In article <3B6842AD.1C56ECBE@sneakemail.com> Russ <18k11tm001@sneakemail.com> wrote: > It would be interesting to add up all the time programmers spend going > back and putting in semicolons and recompiling after the compiler > catches their omission. I'll bet it's over a tenth of a percent of the > programming time (of C/C++ and Ada programmers). Not much, eh? You haven't done much Ada/Pascal/C/C++ programming, have you? Happens about once a month. And that's pushing it. -- Barry -- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. Team JEDI: http://www.delphi-jedi.org NNQ - Quoting Style in Newsgroup Postings http://web.infoave.net/~dcalhoun/nnq/nquote.html