Re: Outside view (still): Development process in the Ada community

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

Well, there's a danger for Ada to attempt to be all things to all
programmers. Just because a feature worked out nicely in some other language
doesn't mean it fits well with the design goals of Ada (which is already
criticized for trying to do too much.) To the extent that some capability
could be provided by an add-on library, it might be a good idea to add it to
the language - with all sorts of cautions about doing it informally at
first, etc. etc. etc. If it starts requiring some syntactic/semantic changes
to the language itself, I'd consider the Fools Rush In principle to be an
important one to keep in mind.

MDC
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"Kent Paul Dolan" <xanthian@well.com> wrote in message
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>
> xanthian, who would mildly suggest that ideas that have been worked out
> and proven in other programming language environments are at this point
> _much_ more important to Ada's future as a viable programming language,
> than merely rechurning stuff already known to work here.
>
> Again, if you don't provide in Ada the modern functionalities the
> students learn to value in school, they will turn away to the tools that
> do.
>