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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 11232c,e59a9d893a249e86 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-17 16:20:54 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mailgate.org!mygate.mailgate.org!198.207.153.205!not-for-mail From: "Kent Paul Dolan" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,misc.misc Subject: Re: Outside view (still): Development process in the Ada community Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 23:20:53 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG Message-ID: <99c4aee4a9ea33ca8fbe1e634b3b4f14.48257@mygate.mailgate.org> References: <3CB46975.90408@snafu.de> <5ee5b646.0204171415.18ac5e85@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.207.153.205 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.mailgate.org 1019077366 32607 198.207.153.205 (Thu Apr 18 01:20:53 2002) X-Complaints-To: abuse@mailgate.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 23:20:53 +0000 (UTC) Injector-Info: news.mailgate.org; posting-host=198.207.153.205; posting-account=48257; posting-date=1019077366 User-Agent: Mailgate Web Server X-URL: http://mygate.mailgate.org/mynews/comp/comp.lang.ada/99c4aee4a9ea33ca8fbe1e634b3b4f14.48257%40mygate.mailgate.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22685 misc.misc:6512 Date: 2002-04-17T23:20:53+00:00 List-Id: "Robert Dewar" wrote: > What makes languages brittle is when they accumulate ill thought out > junk that does not work well and cannot be easily modified. And what makes languages rigid is that they fail to incorporate good ideas that do work out well and have been widely praised. [Or was your earlier denial that Ada ignores inputs from the programming community a hint that you'd somehow managed to sneak in programming by contract, high power text parsing capabilities, et al., to the Ada language standard as long ago promoted here by dozens to hundreds of correspondents, and me not noticed?] xanthian. [Robert and I will never get along, the rest of you please do your best to ignore us.] -- Posted via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG