Re: Ada-like language

[Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>]

On Fri, 16 Apr 1999 dennison@telepath.com wrote:
> In article <3366D07E.C1E62BDE@polymtl.ca>,
>   Olivier Marcoux <olivier.marcoux@polymtl.ca> wrote:
> > Hello all
> >
> > I'm searching a list of currently used Ada-like languages
> > or Ada-derived languages having almost the same syntax as Ada
> >
> > Can you help me ? Or do you have web link to a presentation of such
> > languages ?

I think Oracle (the DB company) made a language (PSQL?) that is based on
Ada. I'm not sure though...

> A computer language family tree would be an interesting project.
> 
> The only ones I've seen that look similar to a casual obverver are Pascal and
> the Modula varieties. Oberon looks a bit similar, but its just different
> enough that I wouldn't count it.
> 
> I don't think there are *any* true Ada-derived languages (well...perhaps VHDL,
> if you count hardware design languages). 

Not something I'd brag about either, being an Ada 95 and Verilog user.
VHDL truly *is* a committee designed language, and it shows. I think Ada 
is a much nicer language for the sort of "high level" modeling that VHDL
is supposedly good at than VHDL.

-- Brian