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: 103376,79bbf7e359159d0d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-09 19:14:21 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!cyclone-sjo1.usenetserver.com!news-out-sjo.usenetserver.com!feed2.onemain.com!feed1.onemain.com!uunet!dca.uu.net!ash.uu.net!world!bobduff From: Robert A Duff Subject: Re: newbie can't get exceptions to work! Sender: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 02:12:38 GMT References: <3ACDB29E.45B91316@earthlink.net> <9ao1if$cq9$1@taliesin.netcom.net.uk> <3ACFC902.115624A1@mindspring.com> <86u23yszjo.fsf@acm.org> Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6690 Date: 2001-04-10T02:12:38+00:00 List-Id: Laurent Guerby writes: > Brian Rogoff writes: > > On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Ted Dennison wrote: > > > That being the case, you'd like to strive for readability, not tersenes. > > > > False dichotomy. In many cases, terse notation is more readable. > > > > Besides, I imagine English keywords, rather than French, German, Chinese, > > or Hindi, were chosen for some reason. Umm, surely Ada keywords are in English because the design of Ada was done for the United States Department of Defense, which tends to use English (or at least a dialect of it). It doesn't mean English is "better" than anything else. If I design a programming language, the keywords will be in English, because that's all I know (unfortunately). The original designer of Ada spoke French as his first language. - Bob