From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Ada's ranking of popularity at IEEE Spectrum
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 22:17:24 -0400
Date: 2014-07-10T22:17:24-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <t8iur917ud91o4epsjbakfso87vdldgsgb@4ax.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: lpmopj$ukh$2@dont-email.me
On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 12:16:03 -0700, Jeffrey Carter
<spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> declaimed the following:
>On 07/10/2014 06:30 AM, Gerd wrote:
>>
>> Forget all those "tagged type" stuff, and offer "classes" so that also C++
>> and Java developers can get familiar with it.
>
>That's what Ichbiah said over 20 years ago.
>
>The way to make Ada popular is to get rid of all those pesky run-time checks,
>make it easier to use pointers and do pointer arithmetic, add braces, and relax
>the syntax until you can compile line noise. And change the name to something
>starting with 'C'.
I propose: CAD
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2014-07-06 15:19 Ada's ranking of popularity at IEEE Spectrum Dan'l Miller
2014-07-06 16:25 ` gautier_niouzes
2014-07-06 17:18 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-07-06 18:03 ` Ludovic Brenta
2014-07-06 19:03 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-07-06 19:41 ` Ludovic Brenta
2014-07-07 7:03 ` Tero Koskinen
2014-07-06 22:15 ` Brad Moore
2014-07-07 13:14 ` Peter Chapin
2014-07-07 14:27 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-07-09 15:01 ` Brad Moore
2014-07-10 7:42 ` Maciej Sobczak
2014-07-10 13:56 ` Peter Chapin
2014-07-10 18:18 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2014-07-10 18:30 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2014-07-11 4:55 ` theanalogmachine
2014-07-11 11:56 ` G.B.
2014-07-07 8:37 ` Brian Drummond
2014-07-06 19:41 ` sbelmont700
2014-07-08 17:25 ` Shark8
2014-07-08 23:03 ` sbelmont700
2014-07-08 23:30 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-09 0:29 ` sbelmont700
2014-07-09 2:30 ` Shark8
2014-07-27 2:01 ` David Thompson
2014-07-27 20:19 ` sbelmont700
2014-07-28 3:53 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-07-07 0:17 ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-07 1:17 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2014-07-07 6:11 ` Simon Wright
2014-07-07 6:30 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-07-07 9:04 ` Brian Drummond
2014-07-07 13:33 ` Simon Wright
2014-07-07 16:11 ` Brian Drummond
2014-07-10 19:49 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2014-07-10 20:19 ` Shark8
2014-07-10 21:39 ` björn lundin
2014-07-10 22:54 ` Shark8
2014-07-11 7:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-07-11 7:37 ` Maciej Sobczak
2014-07-11 9:32 ` björn lundin
2014-07-12 21:43 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2014-07-13 8:52 ` björn lundin
2014-07-11 0:16 ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-11 0:40 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-11 1:15 ` Shark8
2014-07-11 7:03 ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-08 20:10 ` gautier_niouzes
2014-07-10 13:30 ` Gerd
2014-07-10 15:14 ` Shark8
2014-07-10 19:16 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-11 2:17 ` Dennis Lee Bieber [this message]
2014-07-11 0:39 ` gvdschoot
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