From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, FROM_STARTS_WITH_NUMS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.36.120.211 with SMTP id p202mr4899517itc.43.1516806769509; Wed, 24 Jan 2018 07:12:49 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.157.24.117 with SMTP id t50mr686853ott.9.1516806769332; Wed, 24 Jan 2018 07:12:49 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!border1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!peer02.ams1!peer.ams1.xlned.com!news.xlned.com!peer03.am4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer01.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!g80no102461itg.0!news-out.google.com!b73ni9547ita.0!nntp.google.com!w142no102351ita.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 07:12:48 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=85.242.255.128; posting-account=rhqvKAoAAABpikMmPHJSZh4400BboHwT NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.242.255.128 References: <942235344.537649945.074508.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> <288039467.538377555.666858.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <62033550-4044-450b-9010-beba11f99f4e@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Five Years After From: Mehdi Saada <00120260a@gmail.com> Injection-Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 15:12:49 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Received-Bytes: 2487 X-Received-Body-CRC: 934270478 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:50097 Date: 2018-01-24T07:12:48-08:00 List-Id: > 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. =20 > 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-feat= ured generics ? Support for exceptions or clause representations ? Class-wi= de 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 s= ure 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.