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Subject: Re: If not Ada, what else...
From: Anh Vo <anhvofrcaus@gmail.com>
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On Thursday, July 16, 2015 at 6:50:49 PM UTC-7, David Botton wrote:
> > Since then only Ada fitted the bill of readable code and reliability on top of that. (I've been looking at modula back then initially.)
> 
> Agreed
> 
> > Now with this discussion regarding D and I even started looking at Go and I'm puzzled.
> 
> Go is Oberon with C syntax and some week concurrency features, not worthy of much time. Is also seriously broken for anything more than script size software.
> 
> >  I've read there that some people consider D dead. 
> 
> I was not advocating D, only pointing out the next best thing to Ada, but by wide margin. To be precise talking about D2, D is dead and was replaced by D2.
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> > Moreover, I'm not sure I can use D on all the platform I'm aiming at.
> 
> Then likely you can't use Ada on them either. D has 3 backend options, GCC, LLVM and its own. Ada only has GCC... In fact my complaint is that I can't use Ada on the most important mobile and desktop platforms because it is married to GCC.
> 

I have to disagree with you on Ada marrying to GCC. You probably meant GNAT marrying  to GCC since GNAT is a tool, not a computer language.

Anh Vo