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=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 2002:a24:349:: with SMTP id e70mr4411009ite.9.1544825738190; Fri, 14 Dec 2018 14:15:38 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 2002:a9d:ef3:: with SMTP id 106mr81249otj.6.1544825737973; Fri, 14 Dec 2018 14:15:37 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.gegeweb.eu!gegeweb.org!usenet-fr.net!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!209.85.166.215.MISMATCH!k10no98713itk.0!news-out.google.com!v71ni130ita.0!nntp.google.com!q69no99027itb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 14:15:37 -0800 (PST) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=80.216.63.238; posting-account=89rtOwoAAACwfw13aLCkK5t6_il6M4EY NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.216.63.238 User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Introduction From: alexander@xn--junivrs-e1a.com Injection-Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 22:15:38 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:55042 Date: 2018-12-14T14:15:37-08:00 List-Id: Hello all, I must introduce myself. A few months ago I got back into Ada. And I've got big plans. My logic won'= t allow me to speak of it, but the JD is telling me otherwise. First and foremost, I am quite young in comparison to some of you. I'm 20; = although I'd rather say I'm soon to be 21. In Sweden we get to start buying= alcohol at the age of 20. Thank God. (To be fair, my mother usually has th= at handled for me.) I've been programming for 11 years. The first seven years, I reinvented the= wheel for the love of programming, over and over again, but from that time= I only ever reinvented the wheel when it's a square. What I'm trying to sa= y is that a lot of people here know a lot more about Ada than I do; I never= went to school for this. When it comes to programming, I know as much abou= t the advanced things as I do about the basic things. This community is wha= t I hope will change that. Ada is a beautiful language. Rather than writing a short story, you're writ= ing a novel. And through writing a novel you're able to express yourself in= various ways, without having to cut your journey short because of some God= forsaken lava monster. Don't ask me about that. Tomorrow I won't remember = a thing about it. I'm starting to run out of JD. Oh, wait, there's another = flask right over there. It's possible I love Ada because it's different fro= m anything I've seen before; I wasn't around for the development of the Pas= cal family. It's also possible, through Ada, I get to relive the days of ol= d before I was born; a time I'd love to having experienced. Don't you dare say she's just another crush. What do you want from me? Oh a= lright... I got her pregnant, so I don't have much of a choice in the matte= r. I'm going to change the way people look at Ada. I'm going to make it big. "= No, don't tell them that, drunk self." It's too late, backspace stopped wor= king two paragraphs ago. I have young-person ideas that are going to change= the way people look at Ada. I'm going to make it big. I'm going to make it= each new developer's go-to language. And we're going to make any licensing= you want completely free; even if that means having to rewrite the whole c= ompiler from scratch. We're going to change the world together. Let's make Ada ours. Let's make i= t the language people speak of next time someone makes a game as successful= as Minecraft! Even though my drunken self is telling me to, I don't think = I should start talking about my relationship with my father. I told you abo= ut the backspace thing. Besides, isn't everyone at least slightly inebriate= d on Friday evenings? All people on here; young and old: I look up to you. But watch out, I am go= ing to be the greatest Ada programmer one day, if I so have to wait for you= to be dead for me to take your throne. I'd love to have someone from here to talk back and fourth about our projec= ts. Best regards, Your Drunken Friend