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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.36.41.138 with SMTP id p132mr5500920itp.13.1516825044593; Wed, 24 Jan 2018 12:17:24 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.157.43.61 with SMTP id o58mr735301otb.10.1516825044498; Wed, 24 Jan 2018 12:17:24 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.unit0.net!peer03.am4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer03.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!w142no217431ita.0!news-out.google.com!b73ni9779ita.0!nntp.google.com!w142no217429ita.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 12:17:24 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2a02:c7d:3c35:b000:325a:3aff:fe0f:37a5; posting-account=L2-UcQkAAAAfd_BqbeNHs3XeM0jTXloS NNTP-Posting-Host: 2a02:c7d:3c35:b000:325a:3aff:fe0f:37a5 References: <942235344.537649945.074508.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> <288039467.538377555.666858.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <35c275b0-27fb-45b6-b043-18cae6f32d4c@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Five Years After From: Lucretia Injection-Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 20:17:24 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Received-Bytes: 2333 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2287943394 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:50120 Date: 2018-01-24T12:17:24-08:00 List-Id: On Wednesday, 24 January 2018 13:50:20 UTC, Simon Clubley wrote: > Going the other way, a subset of Ada might be useful as well. > > There's serious potential for a good small language that could serve > as an easily implemented C language replacement. It's possible that > a subset of Ada with just the core features implemented and hence > without vast amounts of required runtime library support could > serve that purpose. > > Think of something that had the kind of functionality of a beefed up > version of Oberon with all of the Ada type safety features imported > into it for example. True but what features? With Ada, you need generics to be able to do anything due to the strictness. Would this new Oberon/Ada/C inspired language need generics? What other features would be required? I'd definitely go with ranged types at least, I like OO, I never got to grips with functional, but due to current hypetrains, people would want at least first class functions. What about pointers? Luke.