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,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 11232c,e59a9d893a249e86 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-17 18:20:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!newscon02.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr30.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Pat Rogers" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,misc.misc References: <3CB46975.90408@snafu.de> <5ee5b646.0204171415.18ac5e85@posting.google.com> <99c4aee4a9ea33ca8fbe1e634b3b4f14.48257@mygate.mailgate.org> Subject: Re: Outside view (still): Development process in the Ada community X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.134.122.248 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr30.news.prodigy.com 1019092767 ST000 64.134.122.248 (Wed, 17 Apr 2002 21:19:27 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 21:19:27 EDT Organization: Prodigy Internet http://www.prodigy.com X-UserInfo1: [[PAPDCA[S@USVT^ORHL_IXBUSXHQD\MNPWZKB]MPXHTEPIB_NVUAH_[BL[\IRKIANGGJBFNJF_DOLSCENSY^U@FRFUEXR@KFXYDBPWBCDQJA@X_DCBHXR[C@\EOKCJLED_SZ@RMWYXYWE_P@\\GOIW^@SYFFSWHFIXMADO@^[ADPRPETLBJ]RDGENSKQQZN Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 01:19:27 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22693 misc.misc:6524 Date: 2002-04-18T01:19:27+00:00 List-Id: "Kent Paul Dolan" wrote in message news:99c4aee4a9ea33ca8fbe1e634b3b4f14.48257@mygate.mailgate.org... > "Robert Dewar" wrote: > > > What makes languages brittle is when they accumulate ill thought out > > junk that does not work well and cannot be easily modified. > > And what makes languages rigid is that they fail to incorporate good > ideas that do work out well and have been widely praised. > > [Or was your earlier denial that Ada ignores inputs from the programming > community a hint that you'd somehow managed to sneak in programming by > contract, high power text parsing capabilities, et al., to the Ada > language standard as long ago promoted here by dozens to hundreds of > correspondents, and me not noticed?] And why would I want high-powered text parsing in my hard real-time embedded application?