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Subject: Re: How to make Ada popular. Get rid of ";" at end of statement.
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On Saturday, 20 July 2019 16:45:44 UTC+1, Optikos  wrote:

> What newbies find off-putting ... memorization of the language
> international standard & its rationale instead of something automated
> in the toolchain

Sounds like you're complaining more about the Ada tools than the language
but to get better tools we need to drastically increase the Ada userbase.
So anything that might help Ada code look more familiar to people used to
other languages has to at least be considered.