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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c406e0c4a6eb74ed X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!01cc3b7c!not-for-mail Reply-To: "Richard Riehle" From: "Richard Riehle" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <49dc98cf.0408110556.18ae7df@posting.google.com> <6F2Yc.848$8d1.621@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net> <1094529422.982635@yasure> <_xl%c.431$xA1.301@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net> Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 05:26:54 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.81.219.181 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1094621214 66.81.219.181 (Tue, 07 Sep 2004 22:26:54 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 22:26:54 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3460 Date: 2004-09-08T05:26:54+00:00 List-Id: "Mark Lorenzen" wrote in message news:m3vfep90v7.fsf@0x5358ceb2.boanxx18.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk... > > Why oh why do they continue to teach LISP in the US? They should teach > ML instead. > Lisp continues to be a useful tool for many kinds of applications. It is, however, important that we understand the limits of each our tools. We must recognize that Lisp has its virtues, but also know when to choose a toolset more appropriate for the problem at hand. Ada developers, those with a lot of experience in developing software, understand that they must sometimes combine code from some other language model in their programs. Fortunately, one of the significant virtues of Ada is its friendliness to other languages -- something we cannot acknowledge about many other popular languages. Also, I would be more inclined to choose CAML or OCAML than ML at this time in the development of the ML family. Do you have a reason for eschewing OCAML in favor of ML? Richard Riehle