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From: Bob Duff <bobduff@theworld.com>
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Subject: Re: If not Ada, what else...
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David Botton <david@botton.com> writes:

> D is lacking - #1 no way to switch braces to begin and end :),...

But (and I'm sure you know this), Ada doesn't merely use begin and end.
It uses (e.g.) if/else/end if and the like.

I don't find Pascal's begin/end syntax any better than C's curly braces;
begin/end contains the same information as {}, is more verbose for
no reason, and suffers from the dangling else problem, just like C.
"if/else/end if" is superior to both -- you can tell what "end if"
is the "end" of.  And no dangling else.

> D is ahead ...

Garbage collection (if I recall correctly).

- Bob