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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.58.25.99 with SMTP id b3mr26672774veg.28.1401983731041; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 08:55:31 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.182.176.99 with SMTP id ch3mr18023obc.38.1401983730803; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 08:55:30 -0700 (PDT) Path: border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!hw13no4815952qab.0!news-out.google.com!qf4ni17772igc.0!nntp.google.com!c1no23560763igq.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 08:55:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.126.103.122; posting-account=KSa2aQoAAACOxnC0usBJYX8NE3x3a1Xq NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.126.103.122 References: <3bf7907b-2265-4314-a693-74792df531d1@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <867d052a-a179-4371-bb71-0aea5e0871ce@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: a new language, designed for safety ! From: Adam Beneschan Injection-Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 15:55:30 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:186740 Date: 2014-06-05T08:55:30-07:00 List-Id: On Thursday, June 5, 2014 2:13:46 AM UTC-7, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: > Also they come with really cool modern names such as > "Julia", "Swift", "Hack", "Python", etc.. >=20 > Compare this to the name "Ada", named after a programmer > who lived hundreds of years ago :) Actually, now that I think about it, was Swift named after an author who li= ved three hundred years ago? I guess time will tell whether this modest pr= oposal of a language will have a big impact on the programming world, or wh= ether the impact will be more Lilliputian. -- Adam