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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c21db05aee31ddfc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!club-internet.fr!feedme-small.clubint.net!news.astraweb.com!border1.a.newsrouter.astraweb.com!feeder2.cambrium.nl!feeder3.cambrium.nl!feeder1.cambrium.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!not-for-mail From: Ludovic Brenta Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Direct Quote from the RM References: Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:41:01 +0100 Message-ID: <87sl31yi2q.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:s1dSp2TfsPSvyEtxQY2D83ovgEI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Tele2 X-Trace: DXC=dhTXN1Q_^fYKd2GiBnAOL\6`Y6aWje^YZkQ[mMnIN4N\H]3708^il?PbO>Wk3AKPLWLPM;9Bf5TdU Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18518 Date: 2007-11-19T23:41:01+01:00 List-Id: Randy Brukardt writes > The introduction is just a list of "good" properties which really doesn't > mean that much and has no bearing on the requirements for implementations > and users. Pretty much every programming language has a version of these > same goals. After all, can you imagine a programming language saying that it > was designed to make unreliable programs with no regard to efficiency? Who'd > use that? Malbolge and INTERCAL come to mind :) And yes, there are people "using" these languages, for some weird definition of "use" :) -- Ludovic Brenta.