From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: backlog2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!backlog4.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.glorb.com!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!fx01.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Shark8 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/32.0a1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: a new language, designed for safety ! References: <1402308235.2520.153.camel@pascal.home.net> <85ioo9yukk.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <255b51cd-b23f-4413-805a-9fea3c70d8b2@googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <255b51cd-b23f-4413-805a-9fea3c70d8b2@googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: abuse@teranews.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 23:53:13 UTC Organization: TeraNews.com Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 17:53:11 -0600 X-Received-Bytes: 1576 X-Received-Body-CRC: 1889961419 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:186875 Date: 2014-06-12T17:53:11-06:00 List-Id: On 10-Jun-14 06:42, Lucretia wrote: >> >For general programming for which C would be used, if you want to get >> >your typical C progammer using something safer than C, I still think >> >my Oberon-14 idea represents the general path to take: create a >> >"safer", not "safe", language with some of the basic Ada concepts >> >transplanted into it and which is easy for a C programmer to learn. > > I have thought of something similar. I'll have to try to find your idea and take a look. > It is essentially having a different 'target'/'low-level assembler' than C [for intermediate/bootstrapping]. -- I'm more in favor of using Forth for that purpose.