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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d2f0af5e440b367f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-26 11:19:29 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-fra1.dfn.de!news.f.de.plusline.net!feed.news.nacamar.de!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: proposal for new assignment operators Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 18:19:28 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <3EF9CD5F.6030608@cogeco.ca> <3doRhIgUmUYX@eisner.encompasserve.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1056651568 17291 129.241.83.78 (26 Jun 2003 18:19:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 18:19:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39782 Date: 2003-06-26T18:19:28+00:00 List-Id: Russ wrote: > > Oh, you can't? Go find some programmers who have never seen Ada source > code, show them some Ada source code, and ask them if any of it looks > "obscure" to them. That should help you think of something in Ada that > meets such an "incredible" standard. I would beleive most programmers would read Ada code fairly easy just because it is *so* self-documenting as it is. And one reason for that is that it is not flooded with whitespaces. -- Ada95 is good for you. http://www.crystalcode.com/codemage/MainMenu/Coding/Ada/IntroducingAda.php