From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-65-14.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Received: by 2002:ac8:5710:0:b0:343:5fa9:b707 with SMTP id 16-20020ac85710000000b003435fa9b707mr2709546qtw.192.1661418841614; Thu, 25 Aug 2022 02:14:01 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a25:71c2:0:b0:681:63ae:4c48 with SMTP id m185-20020a2571c2000000b0068163ae4c48mr2525851ybc.578.1661418841196; Thu, 25 Aug 2022 02:14:01 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feed1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!peer02.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!news-out.google.com!nntp.google.com!postnews.google.com!google-groups.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 02:14:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com; posting-host=92.145.218.91; posting-account=L3mulQoAAADsXVjCD5rM6Ap3Xy0U3ckB NNTP-Posting-Host: 92.145.218.91 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <993af397-b615-44e7-ae8d-ec706f9b6098n@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Carbon From: Fabien Chouteau Injection-Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 09:14:01 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Received-Bytes: 2094 Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:64212 List-Id: On Wednesday, July 27, 2022 at 7:24:58 PM UTC+2, John McCabe wrote: > The result is that someone who appears to have > very little software development experience misinterpreted the comments > about half-baked features and locked the thread. I think they did the right thing. And provided explanations: > There are obviously changes that we'd like to make to C++, but calling C++ "half-baked" is demeaning to those who have invested years of work into that project. >> TBH, this whole project just appears to be Google trying to detract from Rust > This is disrespectful to everyone working on the Carbon Language project. I agree with both. I don't know if the people working on Carbon had a bad opinion about Ada before, but sure do now. In the end I think that you did a lot of damage to Ada, its reputation and its community...