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Subject: Re: Augusta: An open source Ada 2012 compiler (someday?)
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On Thursday, 27 March 2014 20:02:56 UTC, Simon Clubley  wrote:

> [*] To bring this back on topic, why does something which looks like
> Ada have to be called Ada ? Call it something else and get people
> using Ada without realising it. :-)

I've already mentioned doing this on #Ada, a fork of Ada. Take the basic language, strip it down to the basics and extend, replacing anything that's a little weird.

i.e. 1) add exception records

type E is exception
   record
      My_Data : Integer;
   end record;

2) User defined types having 'Image and 'Value, which call a subprogram which must be defined if these attributes are to be used - much like the stream operations do.

3) Replace tagged with just class, so:

type C is
   class
      ...
   end class;

For starters.

Luke.