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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fce663eaf40b52f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!newshosting.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!news-feed01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net!nntp.frontiernet.net!nntp.giganews.com.MISMATCH!border1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!nntp.gbronline.com!news.gbronline.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 09:28:11 -0500 Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 09:28:11 -0500 From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: groleau+news@freeshell.org Organization: Ain't no organization here! User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Macintosh/20040208) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Manifesto against Vector References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.9.86.42 X-Trace: sv3-0syHYTZOM6r09Y7zZoJEWKGUK/6HZLodDr5wRlXzLUuhr9bPH4YrcByqeWlxWFgC5rBzEiEqv3ljNF4!PcLuUDyZ5nZFUaqN7/JmbUv2b5qk5AVA07Jx09wdhCbGr/3qBoJ8LxclJtajNJLQlq+npMxsq3zd X-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:320 Date: 2004-05-06T09:28:11-05:00 List-Id: Russ wrote: > Just as I feared. They *are* fumbling the ball. No, they are a Superbowl team in a close game refusing to pick up a basketball that they noticed on the sidelines. > And I also that it is a trivial matter to parse the former to produce > the latter. I could do it myself in a few minutes. Nor does it break One of the benchwarmers could take care of the basketball in a few seconds IF he cared. So why should one of the players on the field run over and do it? Most of us can do a one-liner perl command to do the above or put it in a Makefile or build script in a few seconds. So why should the ARG study to make sure something _you_ might not have thought of _could_ break existing code, modify the Reference Manual, and make all the compiler vendors change compiler code? But of course, that is an "unreasonable objection" to your earth-shakingly important change. Or is your change just an excuse that some addict to another language uses for not using Ada? -- Wes Groleau He that is good for making excuses, is seldom good for anything else. -- Benjamin Franklin