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,beb0b7471c6440e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-20 11:54:11 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!btnet-peer1!btnet-peer0!btnet!news5-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news2-win.server.ntlworld.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "chris.danx" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <3BFA4095.8325D016@earthlink.net> <3BFA8AE3.48AE4F21@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> Subject: Re: 'Cyclone', a safer C--reinventing the wheel MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 19:49:40 -0000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.252.151.95 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: news2-win.server.ntlworld.com 1006285745 62.252.151.95 (Tue, 20 Nov 2001 19:49:05 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 19:49:05 GMT Organization: ntlworld News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16746 Date: 2001-11-20T19:49:40+00:00 List-Id: "Wes Groleau" wrote in message news:3BFA8AE3.48AE4F21@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com... > > > "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 > > 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