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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,9dc2c03e552da989 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Received: by 10.68.219.170 with SMTP id pp10mr21517562pbc.1.1340171375634; Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:49:35 -0700 (PDT) Path: l9ni71320pbj.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!t1g2000pbl.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: quiet_lad Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why Ada isn't as successful as it should be Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:20:33 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <16q6uhbhzcu6z.34tu6w1fyoc$.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 173.60.200.180 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1340171375 18318 127.0.0.1 (20 Jun 2012 05:49:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 05:49:35 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: t1g2000pbl.googlegroups.com; posting-host=173.60.200.180; posting-account=P7XY3woAAADWVZ3Q8yfcXP4_h9XhQ8Kj User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; U; en) Presto/2.10.289 Version/12.00,gzip(gfe) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2012-06-19T22:20:33-07:00 List-Id: On Jun 18, 11:37=A0am, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:12:20 -0700 (PDT), Adam Beneschan wrote: > > Maybe it isn't about the syntax, the verbosity, or the lack of text-han= dling support: > > >http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/06/beard-gallery/ > > A bearded anecdote (:-)) > > I think it was influenced by very rusty Bald-Hairy Theory of Russian > Leaders: > > http://www.stophairlossnow.co.uk/News/Bald-or-hairy-rule-of-thumb-for...h= ttp://seansrussiablog.org/2008/05/08/the-bald-hairy-theory-of-russia... > > which could be a borrowing itself. > > -- > Regards, > Dmitry A. Kazakovhttp://www.dmitry-kazakov.de on the regex thing: do you mean the rebol inspired way is better? or that something else is better? making regex not needed?