Re: 'Cyclone', a safer C--reinventing the wheel

["Ehud Lamm" <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>]

chris.danx <chris.danx@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> It was the tone of the post (which I may have taken the wrong way) that
> seemed to convey the "mine's a superior language" belief.  I appologise if
> that's not Marc's intention.  I make no appologies though, for
highlighting
> my distaste at the recent "trend".
>


Chris,

I think there is no trend. There always were posts of this nature and always
will be, but the majority of discussions here are focused on getting things
done in Ada. That's exactly what they should be about.
In fact, my feeling is that there is a trend of increased interest in doing
useful small scale development in Ada: so many posting are about tool and
libraries (GtkAda, XML, COM support etc.)

People, let's remember that this is a community. Sometimes people just want
to vent, or share something of no particular importance. If it is
semi-related to Ada, and not too frequent, I don't see any problem with
that.

[P.S: I agree with Brian and Chris's feeling: I suggest that before you
decide Ada is the final word on programming languages, you take a look at
more recent developments, esp. from the functional crowd. I think that those
unaware of these languages and approaches will find many interesting ideas,
worth knowing about.]

Ehud