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: 103376,79bbf7e359159d0d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-09 20:50:04 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!sea-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Brian Rogoff Subject: Re: newbie can't get exceptions to work! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <9ao1if$cq9$1@taliesin.netcom.net.uk> <3ACFC902.115624A1@mindspring.com> <86u23yszjo.fsf@acm.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 03:47:39 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.184.139.136 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: sea-read.news.verio.net 986874459 206.184.139.136 (Tue, 10 Apr 2001 03:47:39 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 03:47:39 GMT Organization: Verio Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6693 Date: 2001-04-10T03:47:39+00:00 List-Id: On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Robert A Duff wrote: > > > Brian Rogoff writes: > > > On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Ted Dennison wrote: > > > > That being the case, you'd like to strive for readability, not tersenes. > > > > > > False dichotomy. In many cases, terse notation is more readable. > > > > > > Besides, I imagine English keywords, rather than French, German, Chinese, > > > or Hindi, were chosen for some reason. > > Umm, surely Ada keywords are in English because the design of Ada was > done for the United States Department of Defense, which tends to use > English (or at least a dialect of it). It doesn't mean English is > "better" than anything else. Ummm, surely I know that's the case. The point is that if people are familiar with a particular notation for a simple concept like a delimiter, they'll be able to read it, keyword or no, begin end, {}, if-fi do-od case-esac, (), etc. > If I design a programming language, the keywords will be in English, > because that's all I know (unfortunately). But, as you suggested earlier, superficial similarity to C syntax may be advantageous for the purposes of achieving poularity. I'm arguing that that is not horrible. -- Brian