Re: How to make Ada a dominant language

["Gautier Write-only-address" <gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com>]

[about spaces and tabs]

Russ:

>It is more than "convenient." It FORCES the programmer to use proper
>indentation structure, and it assures the reader that the indentation
>structure is indeed consistent with the logical structure. It is
>completely in the Ada spirit of encouraging good structure and form.

An editor that does it can be very comfortable, I agree. I did
use a so-called GFA-BASIC that indented automatically.

AdaGIDE can re-indent in one click I think. So, this is not
a dramatic issue. Why add it as a language topic, when you know
all the problems that come from TAB characters, their interpretation
(4 or 8 jumps) and typing errors. In addition, if you let the "end"
fall you can imagine the possible damages (I hope). You are crawling
back all the conclusions that led to the Ada design and trying
to re-invent all mistakes of the 1960s - 1970s. For your defence,
you are not alone...

Frankly, why don't you create a "Russ" language, with a preprocessor
that translates to Ada ? So you'll be happy, famous, and Ada programmers
can continue programming...
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