Re: Ada Successor Language

[Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>]

Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com> writes:
> Unix and C [and arguably C++] is the worst thing ... opportunities
> lost [e.g. the low-level of today's "advanced" continuous integration,
> or the cost of using the FS as a DB, or the costs of moronically
> considering unstructured text as THE appropriate/native format for
> storing programs].

I don't think those lost opportunities have much to do with Unix or C.
Fancy CI that I've seen has usually been in conjunction with Ruby or
Python projects, etc.  The FS is similarly a perfectly good DB depending
on what you want for it to do, syntax can be recovered from free text by
parsing, etc.  This mostly comes down to human factors rather than
artifacts of buffer overflows or anything like that.  Ada to zeroth
order is C++ without the buffer overflows.  That's a good thing but it
doesn't affect the other stuff you mentioned.