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: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The future of Spark . Spark 2014 : a wreckage Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 16:23:53 +0200 Organization: cbb software GmbH Message-ID: <2bvcgf0jmjcv$.79izri1n5n9r.dlg@40tude.net> References: <7ebe0439-fa4c-4374-a6c7-365ac78e6e39@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de NNTP-Posting-Host: IenaDxMXK2hi7fvYcb+MlQ.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 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:16294 Date: 2013-07-11T16:23:53+02:00 List-Id: On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 03:10:51 -0700 (PDT), vincent.diemunsch@gmail.com wrote: > Spark syntax needs to be different from Ada syntax because they manipulate > different things : Ada manipulates types like boolean, integers. Spark > annotations manipulates propositions based on abstraction of types (that I > call categories). Yes this is a crucial point. These are two different languages where one (Ada) is a subject of another (SPARK). Statements in these languages should be visually distinct. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de