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: border2.nntp.ams3.giganews.com!backlog4.nntp.ams3.giganews.com!backlog4.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: a new language, designed for safety ! Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 14:16:38 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="a4a86ddfabe7a860897511d47e5acc83"; logging-data="22672"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19bhpXrB8y+WutevSI6yD7m0QO/t0VRmg8=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:OidEzaZTUjkOqghAn/+Vw7BBSEA= sha1:BxFWIews9DDxOOy7t92UjDcTPA8= X-Original-Bytes: 1814 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:186893 Date: 2014-06-13T14:16:38+01:00 List-Id: 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.