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 10.66.244.140 with SMTP id xg12mr14049290pac.37.1415005828456; Mon, 03 Nov 2014 01:10:28 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.140.91.118 with SMTP id y109mr99198qgd.3.1415005828197; Mon, 03 Nov 2014 01:10:28 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!r10no3206688igi.0!news-out.google.com!u5ni17qab.1!nntp.google.com!u7no2054280qaz.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 01:10:28 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=213.108.152.51; posting-account=bMuEOQoAAACUUr_ghL3RBIi5neBZ5w_S NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.108.152.51 References: <220f97ab-9aa2-4961-b140-2b271c3ab99a@googlegroups.com> <99759c3f-a35f-4745-a8fd-2fb6ab6fb1aa@googlegroups.com> <48dc1630-8e7d-4e29-8bdd-53d74932d9d0@googlegroups.com> <88a7f98c-55c2-4b5f-8a9d-c8b7512781c8@googlegroups.com> <50cacb19-5d0b-4dbe-b91b-0b3b462913d6@googlegroups.com> <07d0ad94-160b-4873-ba1b-403e8c0bc420@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <8ca0baf0-42e4-4a59-b123-73c08dbd7761@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: C versus Ada (once again :-)), was: Re: F-22 ADA Programming From: Maciej Sobczak Injection-Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 09:10:28 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:22986 Date: 2014-11-03T01:10:28-08:00 List-Id: > > This sentence sounds like a 100% description of C++. >=20 > It would also be nice if it applied to some scaled up version of a Wirth > style language Why? What problem would that solve? There are 10.000 programming languages = already and some of them are even "nice", so you need to have stronger sell= ing points to get noticed. Creating 10.001-st language that will be neglect= ed by everybody is not worth the effort (that's the economy part of enginee= ring). --=20 Maciej Sobczak * http://www.inspirel.com