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!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!backlog3.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 21:17:14 -0500 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada's ranking of popularity at IEEE Spectrum Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 22:17:24 -0400 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: References: <72b1318a-2eb6-4129-af9b-5bcfbb329c5b@googlegroups.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.73.117.211 X-Trace: sv3-zVelANaTrOFMJ4sfB6Y/L+sIZGkavKF/qKc+utGot/Jk1g8ItuVMOBALmFaU7klECsVkcGCjAel9wtU!rueUMjk5hGOXHCXxPd7nhsm5YxIz0rpDgBMC+t8Zgysrw3djHpRqMwneuhYWX5nc5S5nwE75vDBE!uSIt8eSdbfu0ggbOjhjmmDBlSUUR X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2116 X-Received-Bytes: 2183 X-Received-Body-CRC: 1062559937 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:20859 Date: 2014-07-10T22:17:24-04:00 List-Id: On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 12:16:03 -0700, Jeffrey Carter declaimed the following: >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'. I propose: CAD -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/