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: 103376,103b407e8b68350b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-02 18:51:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn14feed!wn12feed!worldnet.att.net!207.217.77.102!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!harp.news.atl.earthlink.net!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Anybody in US using ADA ? One silly idea.. Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 21:51:18 -0500 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: References: <3E147D79.2070703@cogeco.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.56.b0.9b X-Server-Date: 3 Jan 2003 02:51:37 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32470 Date: 2003-01-03T02:51:37+00:00 List-Id: It might not hurt to start over again with a new name and a new language that patterned itself on Ada - just to get away from the negative impressions and bad press. But if all we've got is another language, it won't do any better. It has to offer the developer something he can't get elsewhere and it has to address a real need that's not being satisfied. I think "Reliability" etc. are all good points, but any language or language revision needs to consider what will help get it adopted by a larger crowd - and "Reliability" just isn't cutting it. MDC -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jast.mil/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g "I'd trade it all for just a little more" -- Charles Montgomery Burns, [4F10] ====================================================================== Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote in message news:3E147D79.2070703@cogeco.ca... > > Maybe what needs to be done is to form a brand new committee, to design > a spashy new language that basically implements the same features, with > similar syntax (but not too obviously). Then give it a splashy new name > after a popular young female (no programmer experience required), and > call it something like "Shania". Make sure it gets included in .Net, and > have the Universities preach about it and.. world domination! > > ;-) > > Just a thought. > > -- > Warren W. Gay VE3WWG > http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg >