Re: Five Years After

[Mehdi Saada <00120260a@gmail.com>]

> 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.

I'm a  in position to talk, and I know peanuts about Oberon, but can I ask you something... What is "core" for you ? Is tasking part of it ? Full-featured generics ? Support for exceptions or clause representations ? Class-wide programming and interfaces ? Or what do you not feel as essential ?
I'm sure there's a bunch others would deem essential and "core". But I am sure too, those things put together already make for a big piece of work for compiler designers.
Remove any of it, Ada will feel hollow... Or I just found myself a purist :-P
Plus, if it's only for having a safer and nicer equivalent to D or Rust, it's not worth the effort, and I doubt people will even consider.