From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: Ada's ranking of popularity at IEEE Spectrum
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 12:16:03 -0700
Date: 2014-07-10T12:16:03-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lpmopj$ukh$2@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c22dc6ab-a81a-4fcd-8124-61b93a11de32@googlegroups.com>
On 07/10/2014 06:30 AM, Gerd wrote:
>
> Forget all those "tagged type" stuff, and offer "classes" so that also C++
> and Java developers can get familiar with it.
That's what Ichbiah said over 20 years ago.
The way to make Ada popular is to get rid of all those pesky run-time checks,
make it easier to use pointers and do pointer arithmetic, add braces, and relax
the syntax until you can compile line noise. And change the name to something
starting with 'C'.
--
Jeff Carter
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2014-07-06 15:19 Ada's ranking of popularity at IEEE Spectrum Dan'l Miller
2014-07-06 16:25 ` gautier_niouzes
2014-07-06 17:18 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-07-06 18:03 ` Ludovic Brenta
2014-07-06 19:03 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-07-06 19:41 ` Ludovic Brenta
2014-07-07 7:03 ` Tero Koskinen
2014-07-06 22:15 ` Brad Moore
2014-07-07 13:14 ` Peter Chapin
2014-07-07 14:27 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-07-09 15:01 ` Brad Moore
2014-07-10 7:42 ` Maciej Sobczak
2014-07-10 13:56 ` Peter Chapin
2014-07-10 18:18 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2014-07-10 18:30 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2014-07-11 4:55 ` theanalogmachine
2014-07-11 11:56 ` G.B.
2014-07-07 8:37 ` Brian Drummond
2014-07-06 19:41 ` sbelmont700
2014-07-08 17:25 ` Shark8
2014-07-08 23:03 ` sbelmont700
2014-07-08 23:30 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-09 0:29 ` sbelmont700
2014-07-09 2:30 ` Shark8
2014-07-27 2:01 ` David Thompson
2014-07-27 20:19 ` sbelmont700
2014-07-28 3:53 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-07-07 0:17 ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-07 1:17 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2014-07-07 6:11 ` Simon Wright
2014-07-07 6:30 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-07-07 9:04 ` Brian Drummond
2014-07-07 13:33 ` Simon Wright
2014-07-07 16:11 ` Brian Drummond
2014-07-10 19:49 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2014-07-10 20:19 ` Shark8
2014-07-10 21:39 ` björn lundin
2014-07-10 22:54 ` Shark8
2014-07-11 7:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-07-11 7:37 ` Maciej Sobczak
2014-07-11 9:32 ` björn lundin
2014-07-12 21:43 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2014-07-13 8:52 ` björn lundin
2014-07-11 0:16 ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-11 0:40 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-11 1:15 ` Shark8
2014-07-11 7:03 ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-08 20:10 ` gautier_niouzes
2014-07-10 13:30 ` Gerd
2014-07-10 15:14 ` Shark8
2014-07-10 19:16 ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2014-07-11 2:17 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2014-07-11 0:39 ` gvdschoot
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