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On 03/24/2014 09:18 AM, J Kimball wrote:
> You are listening to what you're saying aren't you? I know we joke about
> things when we're uncomfortable with them. The people writing the rules
> don't know how to enforce them? There's an actual part of the manual
> that has a nick name "The Heart of Darkness!". Your own compiler can't
> even compete because of the labyrinth of rules.
>
> Ada has become the American tax code. It's becoming abundantly clear
> that there has to be a massive break in backward compatibility in the
> next revision of the language that makes writing compilers easier, not
> just keeping AdaCore in business, but breaking out of the framework of
> Ada 95.
>
> We find ourselves discussing this regularly in #ada on Freenode. Many of
> us see Ada as a sinking ship because of all its baggage. The ideals are
> strong, but the implementation is losing us.
>
> I surely need to review the AIs for the next revision to see what's
> happening.


Well said. I wholeheartedly agree.

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