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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,38fc011071df5a27 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-29 15:48:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!cycny01.gnilink.net!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny03.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030524 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X References: <6a90b886.0305262344.1d558079@posting.google.com> <3ED41344.7090105@spam.com> <3ED46D81.FF62C34F@0.0> <3ED46E07.4340CABC@0.0> <3ED4F3FD.A0EF7079@alfred-hilscher.de> <1138545.LxB10ZPFul@linux1.krischik.com> In-Reply-To: <1138545.LxB10ZPFul@linux1.krischik.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 22:48:00 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.84.146.112 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny03.gnilink.net 1054248480 162.84.146.112 (Thu, 29 May 2003 18:48:00 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 18:48:00 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:38022 Date: 2003-05-29T22:48:00+00:00 List-Id: Martin Krischik wrote: > Thats what optimizers are for. Im my opinion K&R hadn't been > very capable at all. Optimizers are for denying programmers the ability to express their intent? Even in COBOL you could say 'ADD 1 TO I.' It sounds like Ada is one of those stores in Lake Wobegone - If We Don't Have It, You Don't Need It.