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,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-01 00:10:44 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: byhoe@greenlime.com (Adrian Hoe) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How to make Ada a dominant language Date: 1 Aug 2001 00:10:44 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <9ff447f2.0107312310.4bfdadf0@posting.google.com> References: <3B676974.C80C72E5@sneakemail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.106.197.75 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 996649844 16985 127.0.0.1 (1 Aug 2001 07:10:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 1 Aug 2001 07:10:44 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10919 Date: 2001-08-01T07:10:44+00:00 List-Id: Russ <18k11tm001@sneakemail.com> wrote in message news:<3B676974.C80C72E5@sneakemail.com>... > Well, I guess I touched some raw nerves with my proposal to clean up > Ada's syntax. I certainly appreciate the feedback. > > I have come to the conclusion that my first item (eliminating the "end" > keyword and making the indentation structure an inherent part of the > syntax, as in Python) is NOT a good idea after all. The "end" lines > really do help with readability, particularly for long procedures that > end on a different page than they started. > > However, I still stand by the other items in my proposal. I think > semicolons should be essentially eliminated, I still think a semicolon is nice It serves as a punctuation indicating an end of the statement and the beginning of next How does this paragraph looks like to you Taking away punctuations from written text makes reading difficult Certainly people will likely to make mistake while reading This is an analogy example to your proposition to remove semicolon from Ada I think punctuation is nice. It makes life easier! And so is emoticons :) Adrian Hoe > Russ Paielli