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: 103376,7f4d16c4ee371eb5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Brian Rogoff Subject: Re: Why is it Called a Package? Date: 2000/04/08 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 608575860 References: <38DF7F38.8D656ABD@lmtas.lmco.com> <38DFB0BC.9FF72EFC@callnetuk.com> <87u2hq857e.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> <38E2A4A4.E59E997C@research.canon.com.au> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: nntp1.ba.best.com 955248569 219 bpr@206.184.139.136 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-04-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Robert A Duff wrote: > Brian Rogoff writes: > > > Oh, neither was I. I thought it was clear from your post that you were > > talking about designing a new, Ada like language, from scratch, given > > the decades of experience with Ada and some other languages. > > Exactly. Now how do I get somebody to pay me to do that? ;-) Kids today, all they care about is money... Seriously, this is of course the reason why a "from scratch" redesign isn't likely to take place. Perhaps "morphing" Ada 95 into a similar language (we have GNAT after all) would be a better way to go about it. There have been a few proposals for (mostly upwards compatible) Ada extensions, including Mats Weber's and Jun Shen's. Those would be a nice place to start. > > I think its unfortunate that anything connected with C or C++ causes > > such a reaction in Ada fans. Consider that for most programmers Ada > > elicits a similar knee-jerk response. > > I agree, but for this particular case: the A[I] syntax is the way Pascal > does it, too. > > - Bob And Algol-68, and others too. Its just annoying that "because C or C++ does this it must be bad" can be used as an argument. I realize that the person doing it this time used a smiley but it seems common. I think I'd still like Ada if "begin... end" were replaced by "{}", since the surface syntax, while important, is not nearly as important as the semantics. -- Brian