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From: Brian Drummond <brian3@shapes.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Augusta: An open source Ada 2012 compiler (someday?)
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On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:17:07 +0100, Thomas Løcke wrote:

> On 03/24/2014 09:18 AM, J Kimball wrote:

>> We find ourselves discussing this regularly in #ada on Freenode. Many
>> of us see Ada as a sinking ship because of all its baggage. The ideals
>> are strong, but the implementation is losing us.
>>
>> I surely need to review the AIs for the next revision to see what's
>> happening.
> 
> 
> Well said. I wholeheartedly agree.

And another point of commonality with the VHDL community, especially 
after VHDL-2008 appeared, with the kitchen sink (for example, beating Ada 
to the re-introduction of Algol's conditional and case expressions, but 
with different syntax)

- Brian