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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Ada design bug or GNAT bug?
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:57:12 +0300
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On 15-06-23 17:30 , David Botton wrote:
>> I regard the refusal to create a "class type", like Ichbiah wanted it
>
> At this point, we all know it was a mistake

No we don't.

> and the experiences of the last years and revisions have also
> showed areas were things can be simplified and improved.

Sure.

> Perhaps it is time to rethink Ada not just add some more patches
> on and not worry about backward compatibility.

That would certainly be interesting. But any rethink should, IMO, result 
in an Ada-noveau that is even more "Ada-like", and so perhaps even less 
similar to other, more popular languages.

The question is if the rather frail thread of Ada life-force could stand 
being divided into two camps, old Ada and Ada-noveau. Perhaps we can 
hope that Ada-noveau will be much simpler and therefore easier to 
implement, perhaps through more automatic generation of compilation 
phases from formal semantics.

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Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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