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: 103376,651635aa2f402e26 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns14feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s22.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Organization: jrcarter at acm dot org User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: null records and box References: <44942492$0$11080$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> <1150814679.12414.19.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1150814679.12414.19.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.201.97.176 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mchsi.com X-Trace: attbi_s22 1150835538 12.201.97.176 (Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:32:18 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:32:18 GMT Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:32:18 GMT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4859 Date: 2006-06-20T20:32:18+00:00 List-Id: Georg Bauhaus wrote: > > Thanks, also for the nice new language you have made. > As far as I've got so far, it feels much more permissive > and to have fewer edges. And some things are frighteningly > quicker to write. Now if that isn't a major improvement ... ;-) From the ARM-0X Introduction: "emphasis was placed on program readability over ease of writing". Quicker to write is not necessarily a good thing, or we'd all be using APL. -- Jeff Carter "I was hobbling along, minding my own business, all of a sudden, up he comes, cures me! One minute I'm a leper with a trade, next minute my livelihood's gone! Not so much as a 'by your leave!' You're cured, mate. Bloody do-gooder!" Monty Python's Life of Brian 76