Ada and Java/C++

[kalvin.news@gmail.com]

Hi All,

I am not sure whether this idea has been discussed before, but I am writing this down anyway.

Java is a very popular language along C/C++. Ada has fine qualities for writing robust code, that Java and c/C++ languages are missing. It seems that Ada and other Pascal family of languages are not popular among programmers because programmers consider Pascal as a toy language suitable only for academic purposes, and Ada has also a burden of being DoD language and being complex, slow etc.

The idea that came to my mind was that if Ada language is implemented in syntax similar to Java and C++, this might attract more programmer to adapt Ada. This would mean creating Jada (Java-Ada) an/or Cava (C-Ada) languages, that look like Java/C++, but actually they are Ada. So, no matter what language programmer would use Ada/Jada/Cava, the result would be the same - robust code which has all Ada's good features.

Any comments on this?

Br,
Calvin