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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-17 04:59:27 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: David Starner Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language) User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table (Debian GNU/Linux)) Message-Id: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <20040206174017.7E84F4C4114@lovelace.ada-france.org> <406EB6D2.8030801@noplace.com> <87d66pyw1g.fsf@insalien.org> <406EEC35.7040109@noplace.com> <874qs0zvy1.fsf@insalien.org> <40714C98.90601@noplace.com> <1073gv22t969q5a@corp.supernews.com> <40729B9D.30906@noplace.com> <1076000ef5oj06f@corp.supernews.com> <24f07aba.0404141812.31d0578b@posting.google.com> <9bCdnT9qy8Q7nuLdRVn-sw@comcast.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 11:59:27 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.72.69.81 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1082203167 12.72.69.81 (Sat, 17 Apr 2004 11:59:27 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 11:59:27 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7251 Date: 2004-04-17T11:59:27+00:00 List-Id: On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 17:50:29 -0400, Robert I. Eachus wrote: > I think you missed my point. I think Klingon was the first language to > be included in Unicode version 3, that is not in the BMP. I think that ADA is only good for military systems. Honestly, it would have taken you very little time to check this "fact" and find out that Klingon is not in Unicode. Do you really appreciate it when people spout "facts" about Ada that could have been trivially checked but weren't? > But so far I have never needed > _personally_ to go outside the BMP. _Your_ milage may vary. It's not about your needs as a programmer, it's about your user's needs. If you're writing a program for general distribution, you never know when someone from Hong Kong will want to IM someone else or when a professor of ancient languages will want to write a document and include cuneiform. The world needs partial implementations of Unicode even less than it needs partial implementations of Ada.