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-Thread: a07f3367d7,e276c1ed16429c03 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news.mv.net!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada is getting more popular! Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:10:23 -0400 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <4cb5c768$0$6764$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> <1nbbizl9r5irq.1jxdp29n5gxic$.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls6.std.com 1287094210 3043 192.74.137.71 (14 Oct 2010 22:10:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 22:10:10 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (irix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6beNLzGWRQJ7iAYKFjGkV4c+mGc= Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:15509 Date: 2010-10-14T18:10:23-04:00 List-Id: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" writes: > [ I wonder that OP complaints about features (constrained types) of which > other languages lack slightest traces. ] Well, yeah, but maybe the OP is comparing Ada to what he thinks it should be, rather than comparing it to some other language(s). That's not entirely unreasonable, and I do it myself from time to time. So do you -- for example complaining that Ada doesn't do multi-dispatch right, when in fact no language does (it's a hard problem). - Bob