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: Ada Successor Language Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2018 17:54:01 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <5e86db65-84b9-4b5b-9aea-427a658b5ae7@googlegroups.com> <710c0764-bd2a-4b60-a4c2-ae1f0cfba4e7@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: CvkHMVp693S8Z+lk11jyqg.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 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Content-Language: en-US Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:52880 Date: 2018-06-03T17:54:01+02:00 List-Id: On 2018-06-03 17:09, Lucretia wrote: > GPS crashes all over the place and auto complete doesn't work there either. I refuse to use web browser based editors as I don't consider them stable or good enough or fast enough and I consider them to be experimental in nature. Everything else isn't good either. Maybe Linux version does. Windows version of GPS is quite stable and automatic completion works just fine. The only problem is that I don't know how to turn it off, for I hate that annoying stuff. > So, the choice is, imo, a new toolchain sticking to all the Ada baggage, or a new language which we can start from a blank slate and attempting to make a better Ada for this and the next century. And why should it turn any easier? The reasons why Ada is not popular and why there is no investment in Ada tools and libraris will not go away. These reasons lie outside technicalities. The technology is a subject here and is shaped so that only worst languages gain support. You cannot work against negative selection, it is a force of the economical nature. The new language can only be worse in order to survive. I stay with Ada. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de