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 Path: border1.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!backlog3.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Your wish list for Ada 202X Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 09:17:39 +0100 Organization: cbb software GmbH Message-ID: <206rutb9pqak$.11a3dufqvmrm4.dlg@40tude.net> References: <7f1c01c5-3563-4b94-9831-152dbbf2ecdc@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de NNTP-Posting-Host: I5Na6+WsEzT8WoegI0VZTA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Original-Bytes: 1657 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:185349 Date: 2014-03-26T09:17:39+01:00 List-Id: On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 14:41:16 -0700 (PDT), Stoik wrote: > I think that even a casual user of Ada should be able to influence somehow > the new version of Ada. I wonder what is high on your list of wishes for > Ada 202X? No. Casual users have casual ideas. Ada already suffered too much from casual additions. > I suspect many of the proposals could be tested in GNAT before being > introduced (or rejected) in the new version. One could add a switch to > GNAT indicating that we want to use some of the experimental features. Yes, an experimental sandbox is a good idea. However, better would be a compiler from a generalized and simpler language with Ada type system implemented as a library. Most of Ada complexity is due to irregularities and weaknesses of its type system. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de