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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Re:_How_to_get_Ada_to_=e2=80=9ccross_the_chasm=e2=80=9d?= =?UTF-8?Q?=3f?= Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2018 12:07:11 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <1c73f159-eae4-4ae7-a348-03964b007197@googlegroups.com> <878t9nemrl.fsf@nightsong.com> <62df3c25-057c-4cc5-a899-b91413613b83@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 3CrKQyqWAJZHy6zYVP/kUg.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Content-Language: en-US Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:53797 Date: 2018-07-14T12:07:11+02:00 List-Id: On 2018-07-14 11:27, jm.tarrasa@gmail.com wrote: > Backward compatibility is great. Most software that ran in Windows 95 still runs in Windows 10. On the other side, Gtk: Themes written for 3.18 break in 3.20 https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2015/11/20/a-gtk-update/ Yep, GTK is exemplary showing how not to do it. They learned nothing from the disaster of going from GTK 2 to GTK 3. > But there is a point that you must correct problems even breaking compatibility. "Backward compatibility" is a preferred method of argument ARG members use to reject proposals without considering them. (:-)) If somebody proposes something you simply say it would be backward incompatible to do. Mission accomplished. I doubt there is any real problem in Ada that cannot be resolved keeping *everything* backward compatible. > Ada experts don't want to change anything, and non Ada experts create Go, Rust, Swift, Erlang, Nim... Everybody has his pet ideas. In order to change anything there must be a consensus or somebody extremely influential with iron will and fists. Non Ada experts, being non experts, keep on creating yet another garbage language of the day... -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de