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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,54889de51045a215 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-10 00:37:34 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1!bredband!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: += in ada Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 07:37:34 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PVV Message-ID: References: <25oh51-uu2.ln1@beastie.ix.netcom.com> Reply-To: randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1065771454 3935 129.241.83.78 (10 Oct 2003 07:37:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 07:37:34 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.0 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:583 Date: 2003-10-10T07:37:34+00:00 List-Id: On 2003-10-10, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler fed this fish to the penguins on Thursday 09 > October 2003 12:42 pm: > > >> >> Inhouse we have a term for that: "Historical reason". ;) >> >> That means "dirty, little thing that's just there and nobody wants to >> touch it, because if you'd do, it'll surely break some time". >> > Regretably, in the case of Python, it was not "historical reason"... > The BDFL succumbed to the demands of the C-slaves and added the feature > (think they arrived with v2.1 of Python, maybe v2.2... v2.3 has only > recently been released). > Yes exactly. The problem is when people think something is a great idea merly because everybody else does/uses it. Most cases it is not so. Preben