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: 103376,103b407e8b68350b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-17 09:33:23 PST Message-ID: <3E283DD4.1020603@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Anybody in US using ADA ? One silly idea.. References: <1041908422.928308@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1041997309.165001@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1042086217.253468@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1042477504.547640@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1042651417.215661@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1042657338.377677@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3E2641C4.B3B9245D@adaworks.com> <1042737099.670536@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 12:31:00 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1042824660 198.96.47.195 (Fri, 17 Jan 2003 12:31:00 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 12:31:00 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!torn!webster!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:33146 Date: 2003-01-17T12:31:00-05:00 List-Id: Frank J. Lhota wrote: > "Hyman Rosen" wrote in message > news:1042737099.670536@master.nyc.kbcfp.com... > >>Richard Riehle wrote: >> >>>Well, I've mentioned this before as a cautionary issue, but reports are >>>coming in of an impending world-wide shortage of curly braces. Soon, >>>languages that depend on curly braces will run out of this essential >>>resource, and other languages will have to fill in the gap. :-) >> >>Ada had better watch out as well. Due to the popularity of >>template metaprogramming in C++, angle brackets will soon >>be in short supply, and Ada programmers will no longer be >>able to use "is <>" :-) > > Didn't Lisp suffer from a parentheses shortage? I always thought that one > could write Lisp faster with one additional input device: left parenthese > and right parenthese foot pedals. I like the "foot pedals" idea, LOL. It should also be pointed out that C did not want to use '(' and ')' more than necessary, since they like short function and variable names, and abbreviated operators etc. Therefore subscripting is done with '[' and ']' rather than parenthesis, because it does not require a shift key. But the curlies are easily had since it only requires a shift key added to the fingers already poised for action on the square bracket keys that they already use for subscripting ;-) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg