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: 103376,c733905936c6b6b0 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.233.69 with SMTP id tu5mr306446pbc.6.1334698958312; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:42:38 -0700 (PDT) Path: r9ni68005pbh.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!panix!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!nntp.TheWorld.com!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [OT] interesting reason why a language is considered good Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:42:37 -0400 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <4F8AD958.4030901@obry.net> <4f8aea72$0$21460$ba4acef3@reader.news.orange.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: pcls6.std.com 1334698957 7248 192.74.137.71 (17 Apr 2012 21:42:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:42:37 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (irix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0tgfAIpXIqoNkXqfxHeVXXcFbsA= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: 2012-04-17T17:42:37-04:00 List-Id: Simon Wright writes: > ada-mode also untabifies! So we need to abandon our plans to rewrite GNAT in Whitespace?! By the way, it's probably possible to write a program that is both a Whitespace program and an Ada program. It might even do the same thing in both languages, if you're very very careful. - Bob