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,e55245590c829bef X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: _Type vs no _Type Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 07:54:42 +0100 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <86wroy58ff.fsf@gareth.avalon.lan> <86pqup5xfy.fsf@gareth.avalon.lan> <86y69d3rec.fsf@gareth.avalon.lan> <82lj5c5ecm.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <82zktq4n9b.fsf_-_@stephe-leake.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 06:54:45 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="z/xN1DBP8RUb+r9ug/i0hg"; logging-data="15832"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18/LPXocXY16WNGppk3ADGK" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:tcrkL9Ldw4kr6wfiFyJ0jPaKAMA= Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:16214 Date: 2010-11-05T07:54:42+01:00 List-Id: Le 04/11/2010 20:08, Nasser M. Abbasi a �crit : > Sorry, but have a look at all the new languages and also at the list of > most popular languages. They are almost all, if not all, case sensitive. > There must be a good reason for this. > Everybody knows that syntax is the least important thing in a programming language, however if a new language does not have C-like syntax, people will dismiss it. That does not mean the syntax is good, but just that the new generations have seen only one syntax in all of their studies, and they believe that it is the only possible syntax. Sigh... BTW: do you want to see my collection of things where the most succesful design failed to be the most popular one? -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Adalog a d�m�nag� / Adalog has moved: 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00