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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,38159b1b5557a2e7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-27 13:55:43 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!newsfeed.stueberl.de!teaser.fr!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: "Alexandre E. Kopilovitch" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Standard Ada Preprocessor Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 00:48:42 +0300 (MSK) Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1075240240 41131 80.67.180.195 (27 Jan 2004 21:50:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 21:50:40 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: ; from "Robert I. Eachus" at Tue, 27 Jan 2004 10:54:56 -0500 X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.44 MSDOS] X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p5 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.3 Precedence: list List-Id: Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4939 Date: 2004-01-28T00:48:42+03:00 Robert I. Eachus wrote: > I think the right approach is to keep improving Ada for software > engineers and let programmers use C++. No, thanks. We programmers will use all the languages we see as good and possible for our current task and circumstances. Including Visual Basic, Java, Lisp, Smalltalk, assemblers etc., and including certainly Ada and C++. > We are doomed to live in a world where most code is poorly designed. Code is man-made, and man-made things of all kinds are mostly poorly designed. > All we can do is try to keep an island of sanity, Island can't be defended by itself. It was proven several times that even good air forces cannot defend their airbases by themselves, without sufficient support on the ground. Certainly you know all that very well. Alexander Kopilovitch aek@vib.usr.pu.ru Saint-Petersburg Russia