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: 103376,7eaf9f2597de2259 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-10 02:51:11 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newsfeed.cwix.com!news.binc.net!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: on package naming, should the word "_pkg" be part of it? Date: 10 Oct 2001 04:51:07 -0500 Organization: LJK Software Message-ID: References: <9pif1o01btl@drn.newsguy.com> <3BBD12F1.9BED0B70@acm.org> <20011009174047.V16689-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> <9q09d801073@drn.newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: eisner.encompasserve.org X-Trace: grandcanyon.binc.net 1002707470 23233 192.135.80.34 (10 Oct 2001 09:51:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@binc.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:51:10 +0000 (UTC) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14130 Date: 2001-10-10T04:51:07-05:00 List-Id: In article <9q09d801073@drn.newsguy.com>, Robert*@ writes: > I am not saying the current tagged record is bad from technical point of view, > I think it is technically brilliant since it introduces OO to Ada with the > least amount of changes. I am saying that making Ada look like the > other current OO languages in that respect only, would have made it much > more popular and easier to get into it for OO programming since it would looked > and felt the same as C++ and Java and Delphi etc... I don't believe making Ada look like other languages is an inherent benefit, especially where it is different from other languages. Those who move to Ada should be encouraged to think in Ada terms rather than trying to mimic other languages. Quality of the average Ada program is more important than market share.