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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham 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: 2003-10-20 20:45:36 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!cycny01.gnilink.net!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny01.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031008 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: += in ada References: <1066224357.499523@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1066231159.711433@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1066311805.222491@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3F8F3077.60402@comcast.net> <3F900F35.50203@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 03:45:35 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.84.228.90 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny01.gnilink.net 1066707935 162.84.228.90 (Mon, 20 Oct 2003 23:45:35 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 23:45:35 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1248 Date: 2003-10-21T03:45:35+00:00 List-Id: Wes Groleau wrote: > I don't think Ada's alleged "awkward syntax" > is a reason for its unpopularity. All I know is that when I first became aware of Ada many years ago, my reaction was "Oh no! Pascal! Why did it have to be Pascal?" (or something to that effect, since I guess Ada predates the Indiana Jones movies). I don't think I ever recovered from that initial visceral dislike. > won't admit the real reasons they don't like it. So what do you think the "real" reasons are? > 2. At one time, even though Ada made it very easy > to re-use code, contract rules made it difficult. I don't think it's ever been easy to reuse code. Ariane 5? (ducking :-)