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,beb0b7471c6440e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-21 01:31:20 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.huji.ac.il!not-for-mail From: "Ehud Lamm" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: 'Cyclone', a safer C--reinventing the wheel Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 11:20:36 +0200 Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Message-ID: <9tfrtg$rkl$1@news.huji.ac.il> References: <3BFA4095.8325D016@earthlink.net> <3BFA8AE3.48AE4F21@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: di3-78.dialin.huji.ac.il X-Trace: news.huji.ac.il 1006334705 28309 132.64.13.78 (21 Nov 2001 09:25:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.huji.ac.il NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:25:05 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16774 Date: 2001-11-21T11:20:36+02:00 List-Id: chris.danx wrote in message news:RsyK7.1377$6W6.439742@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com... > > It was the tone of the post (which I may have taken the wrong way) that > seemed to convey the "mine's a superior language" belief. I appologise if > that's not Marc's intention. I make no appologies though, for highlighting > my distaste at the recent "trend". > Chris, I think there is no trend. There always were posts of this nature and always will be, but the majority of discussions here are focused on getting things done in Ada. That's exactly what they should be about. In fact, my feeling is that there is a trend of increased interest in doing useful small scale development in Ada: so many posting are about tool and libraries (GtkAda, XML, COM support etc.) People, let's remember that this is a community. Sometimes people just want to vent, or share something of no particular importance. If it is semi-related to Ada, and not too frequent, I don't see any problem with that. [P.S: I agree with Brian and Chris's feeling: I suggest that before you decide Ada is the final word on programming languages, you take a look at more recent developments, esp. from the functional crowd. I think that those unaware of these languages and approaches will find many interesting ideas, worth knowing about.] Ehud