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: a07f3367d7,677963b1aa23e668 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news2.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 stopping you from using Ada for your next commercial project? Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 13:17:51 +0100 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <4d78867e$0$23760$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <87r5afv0qa.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <4d78a96b$0$23753$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <4d78c3c6$0$23757$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <1wcgairebjd7m.1i237ckyxwpe5.dlg@40tude.net> <11zqndd40kbz5$.9y0rytl76z0h.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: Y6LCYkKy5RQem2HQeZ5OLQ.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: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:19105 Date: 2011-03-13T13:17:51+01:00 List-Id: Le Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:58:08 +0100, Dmitry A. Kazakov = a =C3=A9crit: > If usable, they will replace old computers within a decade. The life = > cycle > of a computer is very short. With each algorithms being the result of a big mathematical challenge, = difficult to see what could be the every-day-use target applications. I = = tried to look at some =E2=80=9Ctutorials=E2=80=9D last year (ouch, and t= hey dare to name = this, =E2=80=9Ctutorials=E2=80=9D!)=E2=80=A6 I gave up. Two-states based= computer are light years = simpler than that. On the contrary, I believe boolean computer still hav= e = a long life ahead (and there is no bin big enough for millions of todays= = computers), along with these new machines. > It is always taken as an excuse not to do vital changes, note, before = = > even > considering how these changes might look like. > > You cannot improve language by small incremental changes. If you want = = > this > then keeping it backward compatible is only possible by a big structur= al > change. You are right on these points, except that theory is not practice; just = a = very few things can happens so much suddenly in the human kind worlds. = Even life evolved tiny-step by tiny-step (yes, I known live beings are = full of defects, to not talk about human beings). Could you tell more about =E2=80=9Ckeeping it backward compatible is onl= y possible = by a big structural change=E2=80=9D ? -- = 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]