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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,ab1d177a5a26577d X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!94.75.214.39.MISMATCH!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What's wrong with C++? Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:12:52 +0100 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <1ee1a434-4048-48f6-9f5e-d8126bebb808@r19g2000prm.googlegroups.com> <4d5d3f14$0$13901$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: uiRMzorGO3Dnqq02Vmmf3w.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.01 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17352 Date: 2011-02-17T20:12:52+01:00 List-Id: Le Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:30:25 +0100, Hyman Rosen a =C3= =A9crit: > Paul Graham (2001) > [..] Historically, languages designed for other people to > use have been bad: Cobol, PL/I, Pascal, Ada, C++. The good > languages have been those that were designed for their own > creators: C, Perl, Smalltalk, Lisp. [..] Actually, Lisp was not designed for its creator; it was the result of a = = formalisation, directly inspired by something similar to what Ada Lovela= ce = did ;) It comes with curryfication also, which is really a formal thing,= = not a kind of language sugar. -- = Si les chats miaulent et font autant de vocalises bizarres, c=E2=80=99es= t pas pour = les chiens. =E2=80=9CI am fluent in ASCII=E2=80=9D [Warren 2010]