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=-0.4 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!MuA3i1h56C6Jxec/oPrNyA.user.46.165.242.75.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Carbon Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:48:49 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: Reply-To: nma@12000.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: gioia.aioe.org; logging-data="31464"; posting-host="MuA3i1h56C6Jxec/oPrNyA.user.gioia.aioe.org"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@aioe.org"; User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.11.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Content-Language: en-US Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:64157 List-Id: On 7/27/2022 3:00 PM, Luke A. Guest wrote: > On 27/07/2022 18:24, John McCabe wrote: >> few things that I'm unhappy with in C++ that, in Ada, are "solved" and >> have been for decades. The result is that someone who appears to have > > Yup. > Since Ada has solved these problems long time ago, then why are people still re-inenting the wheel? Why are they not just using Ada? Ada is free software. May be there is something in Ada that preventing it from being widely adopted and used? May be people just like { } instead of Begin, End? I personally like begin/end much more that { } as it is more clear. Or may be there is something else going on. --Nasser