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!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How to make Ada popular. Get rid of ";" at end of statement. Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 08:47:36 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 06:47:36 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="eaa7ae4cc34f43caa7e911d8673c2cbf"; logging-data="14658"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/aXNlsGQdVpttmKskGm3q4" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:v5QVNLAs+xB4LSgkQAcQRx6tC10= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: fr Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:56896 Date: 2019-07-20T08:47:36+02:00 List-Id: Le 20/07/2019 à 00:09, Dmitry A. Kazakov a écrit : > On 2019-07-19 23:41, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: >> According to >> https://hackernoon.com/best-coding-languages-to-learn-in-2019-b49b49250a25 >> >> >> Python has become very popular because >> >> "Part of the reason for Python’s popularity is that it >> gets rid of the annoying conventions of other languages, such as >> using semicolons to indicate the end of a statement. This may >> explain why Python is replacing Java as the primary language >> of instruction for teaching computer science — not just at >> universities but in high school and elementary school programs too" It's not because someone posts an unsupported stupid claim that it has to be followed... Python's idea of using indentation for range of statements is a typical false good idea. -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00 http://www.adalog.fr