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,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-02 03:34:24 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!148.122.208.68!news2.oke.nextra.no!nextra.com!news3.oke.nextra.no.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Leif Roar Moldskred Subject: Re: How to make Ada a dominant language Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <3B676974.C80C72E5@sneakemail.com> <3B68388A.3B146080@silver.jhuapl.edu> <3B684610.B324F495@sneakemail.com> User-Agent: tin/1.4.4-20000803 ("Vet for the Insane") (UNIX) (Linux/2.2.17-21mdk (i686)) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.18.231.130 X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@nextra.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 12:34:10 MEST Organization: Nextra Public Access X-Trace: news3.oke.nextra.no 996748450 195.18.231.130 Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 10:34:10 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11066 Date: 2001-08-02T10:34:10+00:00 List-Id: Russ <18k11tm001@sneakemail.com> wrote: > Please take a look at how Fortran 95 handles source lines. Now, if you > don't like it, that is your perogative, but please don't give me any > garbage about how Ada's way is any better. It isn't. The two styles are > logically equivalent, but the Fortran style is cleaner and less likely > to generate annoying and useless compilation errors. Err... He's not allowed to claim that Ada's way is the better, but you're allowed to claim that Fortran95's way is better? Really. It's one thing to be opinionated, but you're verging on fanatical. > You'll probably be happy to know that I'm about ready to give up on this > thing (at least for now). I can't believe all the ridiculous > justifications I get for stupid syntax. I've followed all of this thread, and I can't see I've seen anyone make justifications for the syntax. Some people have said "A divergence of the Ada standard would be worse than any gain in syntax.", and some have said "I don't agree with you that the syntax is stupid." Neither point of view is a justification. -- Leif Roar Moldskred closet Adaphile