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,c733905936c6b6b0 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.236.198 with SMTP id uw6mr7108408pbc.3.1334498730840; Sun, 15 Apr 2012 07:05:30 -0700 (PDT) Path: r9ni59258pbh.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!news4.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bill Findlay Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [OT] interesting reason why a language is considered good Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 15:05:25 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: individual.net j+KbJ9KmSHvpwP3ylffE1wJqBLh6uv2gpaZr00r47smc/RbpiC Cancel-Lock: sha1:IYFy5SLwTNlizdXLk84J7POAc2Q= User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.32.0.111121 Thread-Topic: [OT] interesting reason why a language is considered good Thread-Index: Ac0bEM3QDlYdZDz4y0K51DrNg0q1ag== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 2012-04-15T15:05:25+01:00 List-Id: On 15/04/2012 11:27, in article jme7r1$eo7$1@speranza.aioe.org, "Nasser M. Abbasi" wrote: > > I thought some here might enjoy this, since I know Ada > folks are more "software engineering" aware than the > average on the net ;) > > Here is what I read: > > "The lack of reserved words in the language gives the > programmer complete freedom to choose identifiers." > > The above was listed under the header of what makes this > language easy, robust and well defined! (I am not > going to name the language). See: -- Bill Findlay with blueyonder.co.uk; use surname & forename;