Re: State of the compiler market

[Petter Fryklund <petter.fryklund@atero.se>]

Den torsdag 29 juni 2017 kl. 13:36:04 UTC+2 skrev Lucretia:
> On Thursday, 29 June 2017 06:46:46 UTC+1, gautier...@hotmail.com  wrote:
> 
> > > > Some people have been saying this for years, but how long it long enough to wait? I think it's worth starting to look at this now.
> > > > 
> > > > Luke
> > > 
> > > I think it might be.
> > > One thing that might be good to do is look into how to make the language smaller [...]
> > 
> > Probably the best is to make a branch of GNAT, call your new language "Beb" (you'd have then Beb.Text_IO, Beb.Numerics, etc.) and start experimenting with it.
> > I'd have a few wishes like:
> > - rename String to Fixed_String and Unbounded_String to String
> > - make Sin, Cos, Log, etc. automatically visible just like "*" for floating-point types
> 
> God no! Remove character and string from standard. Introduce code_points and unicode strings, add "net" packages, add "xml" packages. Basically all the text based stuff the modern world uses and every other language gets for free.
> 
> Add a "UI" package so that we can do Object Pascal type stuff easily. Ada can easily do UI or graphics, yet all that stuff in planes is handled by C++, why?
> 

I agree, it took my then one-year old daughter less than 2 minutes to crash the entertainment system on a flight back from China. 

> Possibly change the coding styles a bit to try to appeal to the C crowd.
> 
> Remove access types in functions, allow in out in them.
> 
> Allow custom types to have 'Image and other similar attributes.
> 
> That's just a start, but this would really need to be a new language in the same vein as Ada, not a fork.