From: David Starner <dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu>
Subject: Re: on package naming, should the word "_pkg" be part of it?
Date: 11 Oct 2001 17:41:02 GMT
Date: 2001-10-11T17:41:02+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9q4lje$8201@news.cis.okstate.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9q4e59018lm@drn.newsguy.com
On 11 Oct 2001 08:34:01 -0700, Robert* @ <Robert_member@newsguy.com> wrote:
>
> Languages get changed all the time. If a language does not adopt it dies.
>
> Ada itself changed. we had Ada83, then came Ada95 to add OO features becuase
> that what was needed to keep Ada moving along with the current needs of
> software.
>
> C changed, C++ came from C to add OO to it.
>
> Fortran changed. now we have fortran 90.
>
> COBOL changed.
>
> Java is being changed to add generics to it.
And the only one of these which had real synatic change was Fortran, and
that's because Fortran had one of the most painful syntaxs ever.
Functional changes are good; diddling with syntax makes nothing simpler
and usually annoys more people then it helps.
--
David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org
Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org
"I saw a daemon stare into my face, and an angel touch my breast; each
one softly calls my name . . . the daemon scares me less."
- "Disciple", Stuart Davis
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2001-10-04 19:58 on package naming, should the word "_pkg" be part of it? mike
2001-10-04 20:34 ` Larry Hazel
2001-10-04 20:54 ` Pascal Obry
2001-10-04 21:04 ` on package naming, should the word Ted Dennison
2001-10-04 22:00 ` Preben Randhol
2001-10-04 22:13 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-10-04 23:38 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-04 23:43 ` Preben Randhol
2001-10-05 0:40 ` MM
2001-10-05 3:22 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-10-04 22:09 ` tmoran
2001-10-05 14:21 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-04 20:53 ` on package naming, should the word "_pkg" be part of it? Marin David Condic
2001-10-05 9:24 ` John McCabe
2001-10-05 10:35 ` mike
2001-10-05 13:29 ` Stephen Leake
2001-10-05 14:17 ` mike
2001-10-05 14:39 ` on package naming, should the word Ted Dennison
2001-10-05 15:07 ` mike
2001-10-05 15:56 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-05 16:12 ` Francisco Javier Loma Daza
2001-10-06 9:16 ` Simon Wright
2001-10-06 12:36 ` Marc A. Criley
2001-10-05 16:52 ` on package naming, should the word "_pkg" be part of it? Jeffrey Carter
2001-10-05 12:54 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-05 17:11 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-10-05 18:52 ` Wes Groleau
2001-10-05 19:17 ` Vincent Marciante
2001-10-08 8:26 ` John McCabe
2001-10-05 1:55 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-10-06 9:25 ` Simon Wright
2001-10-07 19:49 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-10-07 21:12 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-10-08 14:51 ` Stephen Leake
2001-10-08 16:11 ` Francisco Javier Loma Daza
2001-10-08 16:17 ` John McCabe
2001-10-09 7:41 ` Francisco Javier Loma Daza
2001-10-10 8:04 ` John McCabe
2001-10-10 9:47 ` John McCabe
2001-10-10 10:17 ` Francisco Javier Loma Daza
2001-10-10 10:27 ` Francisco Javier Loma Daza
2001-10-10 12:50 ` John McCabe
2001-10-10 13:41 ` Francisco Javier Loma Daza
2001-10-08 16:25 ` Robert*
2001-10-08 19:50 ` Matthew Woodcraft
2001-10-08 16:37 ` on package naming, should the word Ted Dennison
2001-10-08 16:41 ` on package naming, should the word "_pkg" be part of it? Vincent Marciante
2001-10-08 18:50 ` Stephen Leake
2001-10-08 19:46 ` Vincent Marciante
2001-10-08 16:58 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-10-08 19:06 ` Stephen Leake
2001-10-08 19:43 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-10-09 14:22 ` on package naming, should the word Ted Dennison
2001-10-10 5:24 ` Richard Riehle
2001-10-09 23:02 ` on package naming, should the word "_pkg" be part of it? Darren New
2001-10-10 0:55 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-10-10 1:48 ` Robert*
2001-10-10 2:28 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-10-10 15:10 ` Darren New
2001-10-10 18:38 ` tmoran
2001-10-10 19:30 ` Darren New
2001-10-10 9:51 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-10 13:05 ` John McCabe
2001-10-10 15:37 ` Pascal Obry
2001-10-10 17:05 ` Steven Deller
2001-10-10 17:54 ` Pascal Obry
2001-10-11 8:35 ` John McCabe
2001-10-10 15:53 ` M. A. Alves
2001-10-10 18:53 ` Robert*
2001-10-11 6:54 ` Preben Randhol
2001-10-11 12:07 ` Robert*
2001-10-11 12:40 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2001-10-11 14:24 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-11 15:17 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-11 15:34 ` Robert*
2001-10-11 17:41 ` David Starner [this message]
2001-10-12 8:25 ` John McCabe
2001-10-12 9:07 ` Ian Wild
2001-10-12 10:16 ` John McCabe
2001-10-12 12:04 ` Ian Wild
2001-10-12 17:01 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-10-15 8:18 ` John McCabe
2001-10-15 18:21 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-10-15 19:00 ` Pascal Obry
2001-10-15 20:26 ` on package naming, should the word Ted Dennison
2001-10-15 20:52 ` Robert*
2001-10-15 21:57 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-15 22:40 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-10-16 8:40 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2001-10-16 12:49 ` John McCabe
2001-10-16 16:57 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-10-17 8:23 ` John McCabe
2001-10-11 18:37 ` on package naming, should the word "_pkg" be part of it? M. A. Alves
2001-10-11 19:39 ` on package naming, should the word Ted Dennison
2001-10-12 11:23 ` M. A. Alves
2001-10-13 17:32 ` Richard Riehle
2001-10-11 21:03 ` on package naming, should the word "_pkg" be part of it? Preben Randhol
2001-10-12 8:35 ` John McCabe
2001-10-12 11:35 ` M. A. Alves
2001-10-11 21:01 ` Preben Randhol
2001-10-12 2:04 ` David Starner
2001-10-12 9:02 ` Preben Randhol
2001-10-12 19:15 ` David Starner
2001-10-13 11:26 ` Preben Randhol
2001-10-12 2:29 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-10-12 8:45 ` Preben Randhol
2001-10-12 10:20 ` John McCabe
2001-10-12 14:54 ` on package naming, should the word Ted Dennison
2001-10-12 19:21 ` on package naming, should the word "_pkg" be part of it? David Starner
2001-10-12 21:23 ` Vector..
2001-10-13 2:13 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-10-13 3:21 ` Mark Biggar
2001-10-15 16:18 ` John McCabe
2001-10-11 13:19 ` Preben Randhol
2001-10-11 13:42 ` on package naming, should the word Ted Dennison
2001-10-11 15:18 ` Robert*
2001-10-11 15:47 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-11 16:15 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-11 16:15 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-11 20:16 ` Simon Wright
2001-10-12 8:33 ` John McCabe
2001-10-12 16:27 ` Darren New
2001-10-14 20:34 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2001-10-14 22:03 ` Robert*
2001-10-15 12:04 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2001-10-15 21:17 ` Florian Weimer
2001-10-15 6:50 ` on package naming, should the word "_pkg" be part of it? Mats Karlssohn
2001-10-15 10:24 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-18 16:23 ` Robert A Duff
2001-10-05 6:05 ` MM
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