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: 103376,54889de51045a215 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-07 16:52:27 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!yellow.newsread.com!netaxs.com!newsread.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!internal-news-hub.cableinet.net!news-text.cableinet.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.4.030702.0 Subject: Re: += in ada From: "(see below)" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: References: <3F7316F7.219F@mail.ru> <17cd177c.0310010606.52da88f3@posting.google.com> <49cbf610.0310070205.2937e71a@posting.google.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 23:52:26 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.41.184.118 X-Complaints-To: abuse@blueyonder.co.uk X-Trace: news-text.cableinet.net 1065570746 82.41.184.118 (Wed, 08 Oct 2003 00:52:26 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 00:52:26 BST Organization: blueyonder (post doesn't reflect views of blueyonder) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:414 Date: 2003-10-07T23:52:26+00:00 List-Id: On 7/10/03 23:22, in article bebbba07.0310071422.5af7850f@posting.google.com, "Russ" <18k11tm001@sneakemail.com> wrote: > Repeat after me: Augmented assignment is available and WIDELY USED in > C, C++, Java, Perl, and Python, perhaps the 5 most popular > general-purpose programming languages ever designed. Russ, if you tried to be less patronising, your arguments *might* find a less dismissive audience. > Is it *possible* that 98% of the programmers out there might know > *something* that Ada programmers don't? Is it *possible* that Ada programmers who do not agree with you might also be experienced C programmers and know its features only too well? Further, is it possible that they might be right, and that *you* might be wrong? -- Bill