From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: ANN: Introducing AdaBase - Thick database bindings for Ada
Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 10:49:49 -0700
Date: 2016-05-21T10:49:49-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nhq6t8$3hi$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55c5001b-af4e-400c-a4fc-86a44d057932@googlegroups.com>
On 05/21/2016 12:01 AM, jrmarino wrote:
>
> Artistic licence. I can call it (AdaBase) whatever I want and stylize
> however I like.
True. Choosing names and styles that have been demonstrated to alienate at least
some of your potential users seems counterproductive, however.
> Then you'd define that language as case-sensitive, something Ada is not, and
> that's the major flaw in people objection to how capitals are used. While
> some people might use weird editors, they also might be in the great
> minority.
No, it would be case insensitive, but case aware. That is, identifiers that
differ only in case would be the same identifier, but some of them would be
illegal. The language would have a lot of such rules, intended mainly to
alienate potential users.
--
Jeff Carter
"Son of a window-dresser."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-13 20:37 ANN: Introducing AdaBase - Thick database bindings for Ada jrmarino
2016-05-13 21:44 ` Per Sandberg
2016-05-13 23:37 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-05-14 6:59 ` gautier_niouzes
2016-05-16 20:06 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-05-17 7:35 ` gautier_niouzes
2016-05-17 9:38 ` G.B.
2016-05-17 23:29 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-05-29 3:45 ` David Botton
2016-05-14 6:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-05-14 10:41 ` jrmarino
2016-05-14 11:31 ` Björn Lundin
2016-05-14 17:11 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-05-14 12:22 ` AdaMagica
2016-05-14 13:27 ` Georg Bauhaus
2016-05-14 13:50 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-05-15 13:59 ` Shark8
2016-05-15 17:03 ` Björn Lundin
2016-05-19 15:50 ` Shark8
2016-05-15 14:23 ` AdaMagica
2016-05-15 19:38 ` jrmarino
2016-05-16 19:45 ` Olivier Henley
2016-05-18 17:13 ` Anh Vo
2016-05-19 8:16 ` jrmarino
2016-05-20 15:18 ` Martin
2016-05-20 17:44 ` jrmarino
2016-05-20 20:36 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-05-20 23:44 ` jrmarino
2016-05-21 1:12 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-05-21 7:01 ` jrmarino
2016-05-21 10:37 ` Georg Bauhaus
2016-05-21 17:49 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2016-05-21 18:14 ` jrmarino
2016-05-21 5:11 ` J-P. Rosen
2016-05-21 6:43 ` jrmarino
2016-05-21 11:09 ` J-P. Rosen
2016-05-21 16:54 ` jrmarino
2016-05-21 18:20 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-05-21 18:44 ` jrmarino
2016-05-22 21:35 ` Martin
2016-05-23 0:33 ` brbarkstrom
2016-05-23 11:40 ` Martin
2016-05-23 12:46 ` AdaMagica
2016-05-23 22:03 ` Martin
2016-05-24 7:28 ` jrmarino
2016-05-24 9:09 ` J-P. Rosen
2016-05-24 15:27 ` Simon Wright
2016-05-23 20:28 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-05-22 15:06 ` brbarkstrom
2016-05-24 10:16 ` Graham Stark
2016-05-26 22:59 ` jrmarino
2016-05-30 9:19 ` karsar
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