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: 103376,2cc84c0fee9046c0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!atl-c05.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!cycny01.gnilink.net!cyclone1.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Organization: jrcarter at acm dot org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Various Language Architecture Questions References: <1127615832.540718.246970@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1127615832.540718.246970@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <9tFZe.3859$0m6.3121@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 22:25:09 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.3.222.86 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1127687109 67.3.222.86 (Sun, 25 Sep 2005 15:25:09 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 15:25:09 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5154 Date: 2005-09-25T22:25:09+00:00 List-Id: frankgerlach@gmail.com wrote: > I am contemplating to create a new language, which is supposed to be as > fast as C++, but as safe as Java. Your thinking is very low-level. With a well designed language, pointers and type conversions are far rarer than in C/++. When you have been exposed to such a language well enough to use it as intended, then you may be ready to think about designing a language of your own. -- Jeff Carter "It's all right, Taggart. Just a man and a horse being hung out there." Blazing Saddles 34