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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 11232c,e59a9d893a249e86 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-17 21:59:18 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news.mailgate.org!mygate.mailgate.org!198.207.153.205!not-for-mail From: "Kent Paul Dolan" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,misc.misc Subject: Re: Outside view (still): Development process in the Ada community Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 04:59:17 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG Message-ID: References: <3CB46975.90408@snafu.de> <5ee5b646.0204171415.18ac5e85@posting.google.com> <99c4aee4a9ea33ca8fbe1e634b3b4f14.48257@mygate.mailgate.org> <3CBE49C4.99CFA22D@adaworks.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.207.153.205 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.mailgate.org 1019077366 32607 198.207.153.205 (Thu Apr 18 06:59:17 2002) X-Complaints-To: abuse@mailgate.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 04:59:17 +0000 (UTC) Injector-Info: news.mailgate.org; posting-host=198.207.153.205; posting-account=48257; posting-date=1019077366 User-Agent: Mailgate Web Server X-URL: http://mygate.mailgate.org/mynews/comp/comp.lang.ada/fb1718aa1c6fd5a66e7e8efa27be3e69.48257%40mygate.mailgate.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22704 misc.misc:6547 Date: 2002-04-18T04:59:17+00:00 List-Id: "Richard Riehle" wrote: [...] > I'd say that, despite its failure to become popular, Ada is evolving > as it should as a language. We do need more tools, development > environments, GUI builders, and debugging environments, but those > are not a concern of the language designers. Rather, they are the > concern of people who use the language as it is designed. A useful set of words, but not responsive to a posting in which the things mentioned (better parsing capabilities, programming by contract) were explicitly things that very much need to be part of the language, not some library capability. xanthian. -- Posted via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG