Re: 'Cyclone', a safer C--reinventing the wheel

["chris.danx" <chris.danx@ntlworld.com>]

"Wes Groleau" <wwgrol@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> wrote in message
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> "chris.danx" wrote:
> > I'm giving this group until I'm sufficiently well versed in
> > Haskell/Clean/Dylan (so many choices), then if it's still full of "my
> > language is better than yours" posts, I'm off (I had planned to write
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> It's true that some Ada fans take this to an extreme,
> but:
> 1. Perhaps that's because the irrationality of the Ada bashing
>    majority is so extreme.

Are you suggesting a vicious circle?  I can certainly see how that could
arise; someone claiming X is better than Y and X tries to debunk it, and so
on.  There's no use trying to convince someone who's already made up their
mind, is there?  Why try?  It only makes a person more determined and slowly
turn them into a fanatic.


> 2. The particular post you complained about was not an
>    "Ada is better" post.  It was expressing disbelief
>    that someone is touting improvements on C as something
>    special when they have been proven in Ada and other
>    languages for over 20 years.

It was the tone of the post (which I may have taken the wrong way) that
seemed to convey the "mine's a superior language" belief.  I appologise if
that's not Marc's intention.  I make no appologies though, for highlighting
my distaste at the recent "trend".


Chris