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!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED.3d73Ybk3C5U4I2t8lv+lAQ.user.gioia.aioe.org!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How to make Ada popular. Get rid of ";" at end of statement. Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 14:16:45 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <5d9a8728-3c5b-4caf-b765-a455ba4d3523@googlegroups.com> <5fb45b9c-d7da-447c-999e-0e8bcce2eed5@googlegroups.com> <5467cebd-79c3-444c-b28d-a6a217bca0e5@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 3d73Ybk3C5U4I2t8lv+lAQ.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:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Content-Language: en-US Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:56937 Date: 2019-07-25T14:16:45+02:00 List-Id: On 2019-07-25 12:58, Ingo M. wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 24. Juli 2019 17:29:06 UTC+2 schrieb Dmitry A. Kazakov: > >> It is worse than C/C++. It is largely model-driven design with software >> written or drawn in the form of diagrams which prevent even C/C++ >> rudimentary safety checks. Assorted chunks of code generated from >> diagrams are then piled together into one system. > > If that is usual then it should not matter which language the code generator uses to produce the final result. It would not matter if the object code language is C, or C++, or Ada, or whatever. So, why not use a _safe_ language for that? The language in effect is the diagrams, safety (against human errors) applies here. Whatever you generate from that is too late. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de