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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-16 17:25:48 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!colt.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!psiuk-p2!psiuk-p3!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Development process in the Ada community Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 09:38:23 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: References: <3CB46975.90408@snafu.de> <3CBAFFEE.2080708@snafu.de> <8a63570b.0204160328.de7bf8d@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1018964304 12298 136.170.200.133 (16 Apr 2002 13:38:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Apr 2002 13:38:24 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22621 Date: 2002-04-16T13:38:24+00:00 List-Id: At some point a language is descriptive enough to express all the things anyone knows how to say in a sufficiently large number of ways of saying it. I'd think that until some whole new programming paradigm comes along, both Ada and C++ have sufficient expressive capabilities. (Maybe filing off some burrs is in order, but that's about all that can be constructively done.) So what else is left except adding to predefined libraries to extend the language capabilities? IDEs and other tools aren't really a language issue while libraries and execution environments might be. So data structure, math, GUI, communication, OS and other libraries all sound like good candidates to me. It seems like the thing to do at this stage in Ada's life... MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com "Martin Dowie" wrote in message news:8a63570b.0204160328.de7bf8d@posting.google.com... > > An interesting quote from Bjarne Stroustrup on his web page on > what he thinks C++0X should be, is: > > "My personal view is that the key principles should be > > no major changes to the language itself > major extensions to the standard library" > > We are not alone... :-)