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Date: 2019-03-19T17:49:07-07:00
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On Sunday, March 17, 2019 at 12:49:00 PM UTC-4, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Optikos writes:
> > I am sorry to hear that the hope for Ada being the 2nd language (not
> > counting the Draconian SPARK variant) to achieve Rust's level of
> > pointer safety has been abandoned.
> 
> http://www.ats-lang.org/ ?

Paul, how similar or dissimilar to (SPARK + Ada) do you think (ATS's proof mode + ATS's programming mode) is?  My sense is that ATS is doing something substantially different than SPARK, but perhaps I need to look more deeply at ATS.