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 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Five Years After Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 14:39:30 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <942235344.537649945.074508.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> <288039467.538377555.666858.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: MyFhHs417jM9AgzRpXn7yg.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.2 Content-Language: en-US X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:50093 Date: 2018-01-24T14:39:30+01:00 List-Id: On 24/01/2018 14:16, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: > Committee members have to do something, else they > will run out of work. On the contrary, more complexity, more work. > So the only thing they could do is keep making the computer languages > more and more complicated. Nothing happens without scientific efforts towards new concepts of language design. There was no any advance for more than 30 years. The compiler market was demolished long ago, so there is no commercial interest in any research. Languages are designed either by hobbyists or by monopolists for purposes of customer lock and stiffening competition. They recycle old ideas good and bad all the same, just like fashion designers do their collections. There is no push from the programmers' side either because there is no interest in software quality in general, quality does not sell. Ergo, use Ada while you can. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de