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From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com.uk>
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Optikos <optikos@verizon.net> wrote:


> Ada being 2nd best at compile-time revelation of aberrant
> accesses/pointers with Rust being in 1st place does not market Ada well. 
> It makes it sound like Rust definitively won, despite Ada's 40 years of
> diligently trying to be the safest language.  (Let's not allow that to
> happen, or else the world needs AdaSyntaxRustSemantics as a new
> language—with a catchier name.)
> 


This is something I’ve been thinking about, but one step further, no
pointers at all, it is possible.