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From: 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ)
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Subject: Re: += in ada
Date: 9 Oct 2003 12:07:48 -0700
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Preben Randhol <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org> wrote in message news:<slrnbo7afh.1rc.randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no>...
> On 2003-10-07, Russ <18k11tm001@sneakemail.com> wrote:
> > Repeat after me: Augmented assignment is available and WIDELY USED in
> > C, C++, Java, Perl, and Python, perhaps the 5 most popular
> > general-purpose programming languages ever designed. Is it *possible*
> > that 98% of the programmers out there might know *something* that Ada
> > programmers don't?
> 
> So what? A billion Chinese speak Chinese...

Does 98% of the world population speak Chinese?

> Do you want the pointer arithmic of C too?

Do C, C++, Java, Perl, and Python *all* have pointer arithmetic? Of
course not. Only C and C++ have it. My point was that all five of
those languages -- the most popular general-purpose languages in
current use -- *all* have augmented assignment.

What am I to make about your missing such a clearly stated point? Do
you deliberately *try* to miss the point when you don't want to hear
it?

> Preben who gets a bit tired of this attitude.

And I get tired of people who assume that I want augmented assignment
operators in Ada only because they are in C/C++. I'll tell you
straight out that I have no fondness for C and C++, so please dump
that strawman.