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 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.182.40.132 with SMTP id x4mr7020453obk.31.1412777778094; Wed, 08 Oct 2014 07:16:18 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.98.237 with SMTP id o100mr5284qge.37.1412777778014; Wed, 08 Oct 2014 07:16:18 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newspeer1.nac.net!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!uq10no6477546igb.0!news-out.google.com!i10ni69qaf.0!nntp.google.com!dc16no1437191qab.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 07:16:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=50.250.123.221; posting-account=yiWntAoAAAC1KqC_shmxJYv07B9l6LNU NNTP-Posting-Host: 50.250.123.221 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Ada 2005 Language Designer From: David Botton Injection-Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 14:16:18 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:22230 Date: 2014-10-08T07:16:17-07:00 List-Id: Jean Ichbiah - Ada 83 Tucker Taft - Ada 95 Jean Ichbiah started Ada 95, and walked off when they refused to accept that they needed to have Object.Method notations and so we had the dark years from 95-2005 of trying to convince ourselves, that leaving it out was not a retarded decision..... As per a previous thread, not having Object.Method really hurt Ada at a time when it needed it, now it is an uphill battle to get application developers to look at it seriously again. IMO. David Botton