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Subject: Re: Ada Successor Language
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> Shark8 wrote:
> > Dan=E2=80=99l Miller wrote:
> > 3) potential: The most likely funding would
> > come from national governments in Europe,
> > especially France or Germany, who are at
> > times pursuing safe software systems.=20
> Interesting.

The European science-research apparatus commenced on this once before somet=
ime around 1987.  Here is an AJPO paper from the USA side of the Atlantic:

 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235202926_The_European_Formal_Def=
inition_of_Ada_A_US_Perspective

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/BFb0022125

It was presented at the ESEC 1987 conference:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/BFb0022092

The big question is why it stopped at a draft version of a formal descripti=
on of (a subset?) of Ada83:
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/17317_fr.html