Re: How to make Ada a dominant language

["Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@home.com>]

Russ Paielli wrote:
> "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" wrote:
> > Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> > > In article <3B657715.7EC592D9@sneakemail.com>, Russ Paielli <18k11tm001@sneakemail.com> writes:
> > > > Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> > ...snip...
> > > > I am new to Ada, and I believe that gives me a certain perspective that
> > > > Ada veterans lack. I am making a proposal that could save the best
> > > > programming language around, and all I get is a bunch of irrelevant
> > > > criticism.
> >
> > I'm not sure the above properly attributes the correct authors.. I believe
> > Russ wrote the "I am new to Ada..".
> >
> > To the "I am new to Ada" person:
> 
> That's me.
> 
> > You are sadly deluded if you think that a "python enthused" change request
> > to Ada is going to be accepted. Despite any reasoning that you might have,
> > you are not going to have people with millions of Ada lines of code accept
> > that now they must use new syntax. Creating a new language with the ideas
> > that you've presented, only takes Ada back to some of the things it purposely
> > steered clear of. And I'll add, that the indentation idea that Python uses,
> > IMHO, is definitely "not a good thing" (tm).
> 
> Apparently you did not read my proposal very clearly. It would not
> require a single line of Ada to be rewritten, nor would it require any
> Ada programmer to stop using Ada95 syntax. I may be naive, but I am not
> completely clueless.
> 
> Russ

Then you will have read my sentence that "Creating a new language with the ideas
that you've presented, only takes Ada back to some of the things it purposely
steered clear of."  But, you selectively chose not to address that issue.

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