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From: Marco <prenom_nomus@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Advice on selling Ada to a C shop
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On Jul 6, 4:14=A0am, a...@att.net wrote:

> What people are trying to do is create a PLII or PL2. If people want to
> create a PLII aka "Programming Language II" then they should start from
> scratch and create it. =A0And stop trying to add the features of one
> language they like into an other language, and in the process destroying
> the beauty of the unmodified original language. =A0Building PLII is not
> difficult, it start with setting down and make a list of what features
> one like about each language then adopt common features and then add
> those features that are desired. But most people who want a type of PLII
> just think they can modify an existing language and community for that
> language will accept it. The community as a whole does not accept the
> changes they just find another language. So, it is time to tell those
> modifiers that's =A0enough. =A0If you want PLII then create it and leave
> the other languages like "Ada" alone.

  Agreed - it is either a function that returns a value or a procedure
that can manipulate state not both