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: 103376,38159b1b5557a2e7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-02-02 09:36:59 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newspeer.monmouth.com!cyclone.bc.net!news-in.mts.net!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Standard Ada Preprocessor References: <400D2150.6000705@noplace.com> <400E72F9.8060501@noplace.com> <100upo7ln5e3k59@corp.supernews.com> <400FC8E8.2040100@noplace.com> <_JSdna166JuxFo3dRVn-hg@comcast.com> <401115B7.5020205@noplace.com> <401B6A66.4000005@noplace.com> In-Reply-To: <401B6A66.4000005@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 12:28:59 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1075742887 198.96.223.163 (Mon, 02 Feb 2004 12:28:07 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 12:28:07 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5185 Date: 2004-02-02T12:28:59-05:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > If there is no elegant solution, then the alternatives are to create an > inelegant one or live with the problem. Or switch to a language that has > the inelegant solution. My concern is with the last alternative. People > look at Ada and say "I can't make it do what I want it to do..." The Ada > advocates say "Well, you can but you have to turn your head just right, > stand on one leg, blink your eyes three times...." This would give me trouble ;-) ... > We don't have to make Ada look like C, C++ or Java, but we ought to aim > for at least providing a way of doing important things that these > languages can do in some Ada-ish manner. Which was the point of the discussion. > > You can't stop people from wanting things you don't like. You can refuse > to sell it to them (as one should, if it is immoral), but that just > sends them off to someone who *will* sell it to them. > > MDC I was tempted to compare this with "gun control", but that might lead to another entirely OT thread ;-) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://ve3wwg.tk