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From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: Augusta: An open source Ada 2012 compiler (someday?)
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 22:32:20 +0000 (UTC)
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Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> wrote:
> On 14-03-27 21:38 , Lucretia wrote:
>> I've already mentioned doing this on #Ada, a fork of Ada.
>> Take the basic language, strip it down to the basics
> 
> So, what are the "basics"?

The basics are the main language.

> version of Ada-Ed, but with acceptable performance for programs that are
> not humongously large. At the same time, such work, at least if done in
> an academic setting, could help to clarify the dark corners of the
> language standard.

Can be done with llvm as a start with the hit interface.

>> 3) Replace tagged with just class, so:
>> 
>> type C is
>>    class
>>       ...
>>    end class;
> 
> A mere sop to foreign conventions and creates useless non-uniformity
> between different kinds of records. I'm against it.

Sop??

The class is a different concept to a record and should be implemented that
way, this will also make it more familiar to others, I.e. Help foster
adoption.