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From: Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>
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Subject: Re: Alternatives to C: ObjectPascal, Eiffel, Ada or Modula-3?
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On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

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|[..] In fact, I'd like to see much more static features in Ada, than it       |
|presently has. [..]"                                                          |
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I also.

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|"2. Static pure functions                                                     |
|[..]                                                                          |
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|[..]"                                                                         |
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The latest version of VHDL has these.