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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: border1.nntp.ams3.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams2.giganews.com!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada 2005 vs Ada 2012 Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:40:42 -0700 Organization: Also freenews.netfront.net; news.tornevall.net Message-ID: References: <87wqsuo13u.fsf@atmarama.net> <5752e888-09a3-4c2b-b37c-fa18b0207c95@googlegroups.com> <9b6dnawcsYaRSs_MRVn_vwA@giganews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:38:34 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="656ea2f23126f57fb36504d2d15a002c"; logging-data="13320"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18sM958jKnDkB8kyUT2sYmNTQZH8mkmeig=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 In-Reply-To: <9b6dnawcsYaRSs_MRVn_vwA@giganews.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:0lSC5bRieypcag1gq193Xu198Fs= X-Original-Bytes: 1768 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:180808 Date: 2013-03-27T09:40:42-07:00 List-Id: On 03/27/2013 04:24 AM, Peter C. Chapin wrote: > > That said, one of the attractions of the Barnes book is its comprehensiveness. > Trimming back material would potentially take away from that. Seems to me that if a comprehensive text for a language doesn't fit in a single volume, that's a sign that the language has become Too Damn Big. -- Jeff Carter "The time has come to act, and act fast. I'm leaving." Blazing Saddles 36