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From: Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com>
Subject: Re: Announcing JGNAT public version 1.0p
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Brian Rogoff wrote:
> ...
> Seriously though, SML is a fine language to learn. Knowing proper ML style
> will help you write clean Ada code in the same way that knowing Ada helps
> you to write clean C code. If I'm not mistaken, the SML module system
> even had some impact on the design of Ada 95, in particular generic
> formal package parameters.

SML may be nice, but the designer of the Ada95 formal package parameter
facility (;-) had very little knowledge of SML at the time of its design.
I wonder where the idea that SML influenced Ada 95 came from...
(For what it is worth, the VHDL library system was the initial
spark toward developing the "child package" capability in Ada 95,
although the Ada95 capability is a more general mechanism.)

> ...
> -- Brian

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