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Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 19:59:09 -0600
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Martin Dowie wrote:
> Ludovico Brena wrote:
> 
>> Most of Ada's syntax is inherited from Pascal.
> 
> 
> I think Modula-3 was the prime inspiration but never having used it I 
> could be wrong! :-)

Definitely not Modula 3, which dates from the latter half of the 1980s. 
I remember the introduction to the original book published about it 
mentioning how they learned from errors made in the designs of Modula 2 
and Ada83. I've never used it, but I remember thinking it did have some 
good ideas (although they kept the damnable 'begin .. end' keywords and 
a couple of other things that I no longer remember instead of using 
Ada's much better syntax).

--Larry