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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3dbf2f325f33ce35 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Brian Rogoff Subject: Re: Elimination of "use" clauses Date: 1999/07/22 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 504256859 References: <7ljb4e$na9$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7ltus1$ah1@dfw-ixnews19.ix.netcom.com> <7mrjus$bet@dfw-ixnews14.ix.netcom.com> <7n0icj$1je@dfw-ixnews21.ix.netcom.com> <7n0ska$h20$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7n5cdr$84s$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7n87ta$86j$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: nntp1.ba.best.com 932700061 205 bpr@206.184.139.136 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-07-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Robert Dewar wrote: > In article > , > Brian Rogoff wrote: > > I'm not fond of this aspect of the language design process, > since there > > are features that I think add something to the expressiveness > of the > > language which were omitted because strong constituencies > abhorred them. > > > Well you seem to be saying that > > a) I am not fond of the fact that useful features that I would > have liked have been omitted from the language. They should > have payed more attention to people like me. Exactly!! > b) I don't like the process whereby they pay attention to what > people think, and follow these recommendations No, its just that the wrong people are being paid attention to. :-) -- Brian