Re: A Pascal Subset of Ada (was: Why Ada is Failing Socially)

[g_harrison@vger.nsu.edu (George C. Harrison, Norfolk State University)]

In article <3155@cod.NOSC.MIL>, sampson@cod.NOSC.MIL (Charles H. Sampson) writes:
> In article <1991Jun25.022849.18078@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov> larryc@poe.jpl.nasa.gov (Larry Carroll) writes:
> 
>>One of the biggest mistakes of AJPO (or whoever made the decision) was to
>>disallow Ada subsets.  I think they should have allowed ONE subset, 
>>corresponding roughly to Pascal and including packages.  ...
> 
>      ...in the early 80s I tried to define a Pascal subset of Ada.
> I found it a non-trivial exercise.  The problem was, I didn't want to in-
> clude generics, but that is the only way you can do I/O.  Of the several
> "solutions" I came up with to this dilemma, none really satisfied me.
> 
>                                  Charlie

I never thought about the I/O stuff.  I had always felt that SubAda == Pascal
could be done.  

You might have wanted to name it   "Ada--"

George....