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,FREEMAIL_FROM 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: 2004-01-27 07:55:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed-west.nntpserver.com!hub1.meganetnews.com!nntpserver.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!63.218.45.12.MISMATCH!mypathentry!newshosting.com!news-xfer1.atl.newshosting.com!216.196.98.140.MISMATCH!border1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!border2.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!border1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 09:54:57 -0600 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 10:54:56 -0500 From: "Robert I. Eachus" 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: <100upo7ln5e3k59@corp.supernews.com> <400FC8E8.2040100@noplace.com> <_JSdna166JuxFo3dRVn-hg@comcast.com> <401115B7.5020205@noplace.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.147.77.160 X-Trace: sv3-9u7Zre5s05HEr033D4hbcvgGa4R644g5Muiq8pzBlqKoZ9nCDOc4lR1Jugdh435Imqup6Bns/cs+rCF!3dLjd+vtWPBgV1Ba8ZeewoBR/Pmc0MrLj6v+5IsZg2e7CzrRtPs+gApdW8IjCg== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4908 Date: 2004-01-27T10:54:56-05:00 List-Id: Georg Bauhaus wrote: > So the trick will be to turn CM into a programming problem, so > programmers and mathematicians will be instrested in solving it. No, I think the right approach is to keep improving Ada for software engineers and let programmers use C++. We are doomed to live in a world where most code is poorly designed. All we can do is try to keep an island of sanity, and try to insure that Ada is used where quality is critical. (I am not saying there is no well designed C++ out there. There is, but it is the exception, not something you can expect.) -- Robert I. Eachus "The war on terror is a different kind of war, waged capture by capture, cell by cell, and victory by victory. Our security is assured by our perseverance and by our sure belief in the success of liberty." -- George W. Bush