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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,21960280f1d61e84 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed-0.progon.net!progon.net!news-zh.switch.ch!switch.ch!cernne03.cern.ch!not-for-mail From: Maciej Sobczak Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular? Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:07:28 +0100 Organization: CERN News Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: abpc10883.cern.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: cernne03.cern.ch 1171271248 7353 137.138.37.241 (12 Feb 2007 09:07:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@@cern.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:07:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061220) In-Reply-To: Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:9275 Date: 2007-02-12T10:07:28+01:00 List-Id: Randy Brukardt wrote: >> I treat it as an idiom that allows me to finally achieve the goal, but >> not as a direct support for the feature that would be most accurate. > > Fair enough, but then why are you here? I don't understand. Is the fact that I miss some language feature disqualifying me from learning more about the language? :-) > Ada is all about providing building > blocks that allow you to accomplish a purpose, rather than whiz-bang > features that provide the entire purpose in a neat but inflexible package. Is a direct support for constructors a whiz-bang but inflexible package? In what way? > There are many examples of that: [...] Sure, but there are also examples of missing features. For every language there is at least one programmer that will miss something. I miss (for example) constructors in Ada. -- Maciej Sobczak : http://www.msobczak.com/ Programming : http://www.msobczak.com/prog/