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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: border1.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!uio.no!fnord.no!news.stack.nl!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: Ada advocacy Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 15:39:54 +0200 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <19595886.4450.1332248078686.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@vbbfy7> <2012032020582259520-rblove@airmailnet> <12ee9bc5-3bdf-4ac0-b805-5f10b3859ff4@googlegroups.com> <6c58fae4-6c34-4d7a-ab71-e857e55897c0@x6g2000vbj.googlegroups.com> <9a8671ee-7e46-4574-9505-9ecbce0dec89@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: Z+UZnJO9e89q1cqW+CZH4Q.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/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Original-Bytes: 2064 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:183151 Date: 2013-08-27T15:39:54+02:00 List-Id: Le Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:29:57 +0200, a =C3=A9crit:= > On Tuesday, 18 June 2013 15:55:23 UTC+10, Peter Brooks wrote: >> On Jun 18, 3:28 am, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >> > Ada was basically the first LANGUAGE that defined = >> multi-tasking >> > IN THE LANGUAGE itself. >> The second. Algol68 did. > > c.f. http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithms/Quicksort#ALGOL_68= > PAR ( # remove PAR for single threaded sort # > qsort(array[:i-1], cmp), > qsort(array[i+1:], cmp) > ) > > Blink and you might miss it! :-) And what happened to it? Was this all fine or not? -- = =E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1] =E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.= =E2=80=9D [1] [1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers= ity