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: Sun, 21 Jul 2019 07:11:58 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <87sgr1nlll.fsf@nightsong.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2019 05:11:57 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="dd8d2c598a9fd12717c5018966c49d16"; logging-data="27608"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+tGPHsmfujvo4VDo1Iykf6" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:R1V83xbqHdDr/gbdy8IUCe3vYrA= In-Reply-To: <87sgr1nlll.fsf@nightsong.com> Content-Language: fr Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:56910 Date: 2019-07-21T07:11:58+02:00 List-Id: 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. -- 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