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=0.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,7b5615402713dcbb X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Received: by 10.68.141.225 with SMTP id rr1mr2393771pbb.2.1346081188230; Mon, 27 Aug 2012 08:26:28 -0700 (PDT) Path: a8ni70994597pbd.1!nntp.google.com!news.glorb.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada and Java/C++ Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 17:26:26 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <8bfbf709-18ac-43cd-b037-ce47adde96c2@googlegroups.com> <1dy5xgqtdqpp6$.qio4t8fjk8b5.dlg@40tude.net> <513d6efb-6aad-4013-8b21-37c75aa6aaf7@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Injection-Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:26:27 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="709a3b9124d052b085bf6fc3f0a2adab"; logging-data="17716"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/Az8vhQebofg7GrtZN8Txt" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 In-Reply-To: <513d6efb-6aad-4013-8b21-37c75aa6aaf7@googlegroups.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:YxpltOMV0pbCKsMFdyfgq/e2Z4o= X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 2012-08-27T17:26:26+02:00 List-Id: Le 27/08/2012 15:44, kalvin.news@gmail.com a �crit : > >If something looks familiar to something that you already know, it > appears more appealing compared to something that you don't know. > Lisp, Forth and APL are good examples of this. If Java wouldn't be so > similar to C/C++, it may have not become the mainstream language. > Think about situation in which Java would have used syntax similar to > APL or Forth. Number 1 quality of Ada is readability: if you change the syntax, you will badly hurt it. And to not surprise C-programmers, you'll have to reintroduce the crazy syntax of switch statements, with mandatory break... Also, what often frightens C-ers is that types cannot be mixed at will. Would you reintroduce automatic type promotion? No thanks. -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00 http://www.adalog.fr