Re: Ada Successor Language

["Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net>]

On Monday, June 4, 2018 at 7:17:26 PM UTC-5, Shark8 wrote:
> (ALSO: I personally think that a user definable "abstract type interface" [kinda/sorta type classes], as well
> as user-definable attributes, would be great ways to handle the above while expanding the capabilities of
> Ada'Succ.)

Ada'Succ is an awesome name at some level (e.g., "Ada'Succ" would be unique on WWW searches).  Instead of a play on Ada Lovelace Byron's name et cetera, it is the 2nd insect regarding Ada when read phonetically:  Ada tick suck.  The mascot could be literally be a tick insect.

(Ada95 would be either Ada'Class or Ada'Tag under this system of monikers.)

With some creativity, somehow the sucking blood metaphor of “ada tick suck” could be retailored to be a positive meaning.  E.g.,

1) the Boost project that is influencing modern C++ in the 21st century was originally jokingly named Booze as a beverage even better than Java/coffee/joe.  Booze got morphed into Boost.

2) Boilermaker was an insult applied by another college-town's newspaper to Purdue University's athletes back in the 19th century who were working part-time at a local steam-equipment factory to pay their way through Purdue University.  Instead of being an insult, those athletes wore the moniker as their official badge of honor as their official team name.

Where there is a will, there is a way.