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: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!reality.xs3.de!news.jacob-sparre.dk!loke.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tero Koskinen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: a new language, designed for safety ! Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 09:33:44 +0300 Organization: Jacob Sparre Andersen Research & Innovation Message-ID: References: <1402308235.2520.153.camel@pascal.home.net> <85ioo9yukk.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <255b51cd-b23f-4413-805a-9fea3c70d8b2@googlegroups.com> <5b446648-8193-46c4-b99c-015d86983758@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 87-95-74-38.bb.dnainternet.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: loke.gir.dk 1402814031 17603 87.95.74.38 (15 Jun 2014 06:33:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 06:33:51 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:20309 Date: 2014-06-15T09:33:44+03:00 List-Id: 13.6.2014 16:16, Simon Wright wrote: > gvdschoot@gmail.com writes: > >> The thing is: The languages with more options will win. You see that >> with the Rust vs Go people. Go is a language that is close to >> Oberon-14, with very well thought simplicity. Rust on the other hand >> is *the* C++ replacement and it has all the features that makes code >> hard to understand. But because of all these features it attracts the >> developers of today. Non-determinism is a very good thing >> IMO. Reasonability results in good code that is easy to maintain. But >> we don't live in that world anymore. > > I _hope_ you're being sarcastic. > This is valid Rust code [1]: pub fn inner<'a>(&'a mut self) -> &'a mut R { &mut self.h.r } Yours, Tero [1] https://twitter.com/damienmiller/status/476207923702423552