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: a07f3367d7,78e482034cf71a6e X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.66.81.170 with SMTP id b10mr4752931pay.31.1350501282525; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:14:42 -0700 (PDT) Path: s9ni17777pbb.0!nntp.google.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!news2.euro.net!xlned.com!feeder1.xlned.com!news.osn.de!diablo2.news.osn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bill Findlay Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Promoting Ada via facebook/google+ .... Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:14:40 +0100 Message-ID: References: <397057cf-1aa5-4dbb-820a-79d8aeee4134@googlegroups.com> <1f1fe619-0478-4a75-acef-6f3234265a9b@googlegroups.com> <507c0b98$0$6630$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net> <119c7543-b671-477e-bede-0e71a78a7dd2@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: individual.net qGQnn8GKsO7ucKaWAwQkQgWz+ofQTAPFEuuH7uFRekRIndNEYQSoxtGlcJIAI0FByS Cancel-Lock: sha1:Imx9CfnbJrh34nQqTJ+69p1EpIE= User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.33.0.120411 Thread-Topic: Promoting Ada via facebook/google+ .... Thread-Index: Ac2sm6fgKeuJJi0gF0WCNU9gIwofkQ== X-Received-Bytes: 2218 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 2012-10-17T20:14:40+01:00 List-Id: On 17/10/2012 15:34, in article 119c7543-b671-477e-bede-0e71a78a7dd2@googlegroups.com, "montezf@gmail.com" wrote: > ... I myself am just a hobby hacker with a love for languages a little > different than mainstream. Heck I myself would love to have an interface > bridge between Haskell and Ada. Ah, now there we part company. I used to be a cow-orker of the inventors of Haskell, who got up to their nefarious activitits two offices along from me. It surprises me that soemone who appreciates Ada also subscribes to the cult of 'concision', which is so antithetical to the view of programming as a human activity. 8-) -- Bill Findlay with blueyonder.co.uk; use surname & forename;