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From: J Kimball <spam@example.com>
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Subject: Re: Augusta: An open source Ada 2012 compiler (someday?)
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 00:11:38 -0500
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On 03/28/2014 12:12 AM, Shark8 wrote:
> On 27-Mar-14 15:32, Luke A. Guest wrote:
>> Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> wrote:
>>> On 14-03-27 21:38 , Lucretia wrote:
>>>> I've already mentioned doing this on #Ada, a fork of Ada.
>>>> Take the basic language, strip it down to the basics
>>>
>>> So, what are the "basics"?
>>
>> The basics are the main language.
>>
>>> version of Ada-Ed, but with acceptable performance for programs that are
>>> not humongously large. At the same time, such work, at least if done in
>>> an academic setting, could help to clarify the dark corners of the
>>> language standard.
>>
>> Can be done with llvm as a start with the hit interface.
>>
>>>> 3) Replace tagged with just class, so:
>>>>
>>>> type C is
>>>>     class
>>>>        ...
>>>>     end class;
>>>
>>> A mere sop to foreign conventions and creates useless non-uniformity
>>> between different kinds of records. I'm against it.
>>
>> Sop??
>>
>> The class is a different concept to a record and should be implemented that
>> way, this will also make it more familiar to others, I.e. Help foster
>> adoption.
>
> I'd rather CLASS be used as, say, a shorthand for [essentially] signature-package use-cases (i.e. ensuring some type has some interface -- perhaps allowing a separately defined implementation).

Of the issues people are interested in, repurposing keywords isn't really a priority. Keywords always vary across languages and paradigms. It's just part of the curve of any language.