From: "J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>
Subject: Re: How to make Ada popular. Get rid of ";" at end of statement.
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2019 07:11:58 +0200
Date: 2019-07-21T07:11:58+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <qh0s6t$quo$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sgr1nlll.fsf@nightsong.com>
Le 20/07/2019 à 10:42, Paul Rubin a écrit :
> It's certainly not about the semicolons, but Python code is very concise
> and fluid to write.
... but terrible to modify. Moving code around creates a lot of
opportunities for introducing errors.
> Python doesn't really try to compete in Ada's space of very big, highly
> reliable, high performance systems. It's for quickly banging out
> something that is not too complicated, and that basically works or is
> easy to fix when it throws an error. In Ada circles that is sometimes
> called rapid prototyping.
Agreed, but I'd call that "Kleenex" code: use it once and throw it away.
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2019-07-19 21:41 How to make Ada popular. Get rid of ";" at end of statement Nasser M. Abbasi
2019-07-19 22:09 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-07-20 6:47 ` J-P. Rosen
2019-07-20 8:42 ` Paul Rubin
2019-07-21 5:11 ` J-P. Rosen [this message]
2019-07-23 9:24 ` darek
2019-07-20 17:08 ` Stéphane Rivière
2019-07-20 13:46 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2019-07-20 0:47 ` Matt Borchers
2019-07-20 13:54 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2019-07-20 14:40 ` Stephen Davies
2019-07-20 15:45 ` Optikos
2019-07-20 17:24 ` joviangm
2019-07-20 19:10 ` Optikos
2019-07-20 19:17 ` AdaMagica
2019-07-20 22:25 ` Paul Rubin
2019-07-20 23:08 ` Optikos
2019-07-20 22:24 ` Paul Rubin
2019-07-20 21:14 ` Keith Thompson
2019-07-23 21:58 ` Ingo M.
2019-07-23 23:56 ` Paul Rubin
2019-07-24 14:06 ` John Perry
2019-07-24 14:51 ` Ingo M.
2019-07-24 15:29 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-07-25 10:58 ` Ingo M.
2019-07-25 12:16 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-07-26 10:54 ` antispam
2019-07-26 11:35 ` Niklas Holsti
2019-07-26 16:07 ` Simon Wright
2019-07-24 19:52 ` Ingo M.
2019-07-24 20:31 ` J-P. Rosen
2019-07-25 13:34 ` gautier_niouzes
2019-07-25 7:26 ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-07-25 10:47 ` Ingo M.
2019-07-25 16:18 ` John Perry
2019-07-25 18:31 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2019-07-26 18:04 ` Shark8
2019-07-26 18:53 ` Niklas Holsti
2019-07-26 19:16 ` Niklas Holsti
2019-07-27 1:27 ` Lucretia
2019-07-27 1:34 ` Keith Thompson
2019-07-27 3:11 ` Randy Brukardt
2019-07-27 4:06 ` Keith Thompson
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