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From: Gour <gour@atmarama.net>
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Subject: Re: If not Ada, what else...
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 08:30:53 +0200
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David Botton <david@botton.com> writes:

> D actually does everything you listed just as well or better. Ada as a
> language is far stronger for sure (I am one of its biggest advocates),
> but Ada suffers from few bindings, foolish license games, much weaker
> standard runtime library, no package management system with automatic
> builds like dub (although Gnoga now has the start of one and will be
> in the next 1.2 release in the coming months), Ada has a much more
> limited set of targets, etc.

This is interesting observation about D…Considering that you’re even
considering writing another front-end, I wonder if you checked the
status of Modula-2 R10? (https://bitbucket.org/trijezdci/m2r10)

It looks that the spec is done and the guy (trijezdci) is now (again)
working on “bootstrap compiler”?



Sincerely,
Gour

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