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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.182.91.79 with SMTP id cc15mr27218449obb.13.1401982439769; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 08:33:59 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.182.50.201 with SMTP id e9mr368835obo.2.1401982439637; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 08:33:59 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!h18no757923igc.0!news-out.google.com!gi6ni19621igc.0!nntp.google.com!h18no757913igc.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 08:33:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.126.103.122; posting-account=KSa2aQoAAACOxnC0usBJYX8NE3x3a1Xq NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.126.103.122 References: <3bf7907b-2265-4314-a693-74792df531d1@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: a new language, designed for safety ! From: Adam Beneschan Injection-Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 15:33:59 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:20141 Date: 2014-06-05T08:33:59-07:00 List-Id: On Thursday, June 5, 2014 2:13:46 AM UTC-7, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: > On the other hand, dynamic languages are more fun, > since they allow one to hack code so much faster! And > many also come with build-in GUI. > > Also they come with really cool modern names such as > "Julia", "Swift", "Hack", "Python", etc.. > > Compare this to the name "Ada", named after a programmer > who lived hundreds of years ago :) What about "Go", which was named for a board game invented thousands of years ago? OK, I don't know where the name really came from (it's probably an acronym for Google Obnoxiousness). Anyway, it's not the name of a language that determines how popular a language becomes. It's whether the language's inventor has a good beard. -- Adam