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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
Date: 1996/02/24
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Date: 1996-02-24T00:00:00+00:00
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Ray Toal asks

"I would be interested to know if any Ada vendors have released
Ada compilers with vendor-specific syntax modifications."

Certainly not if they are validated, since part of the validation process
involves a "declaration of conformance" that verifies that you have not
added non-permissible extensions, and syntax modifications are certainly
in this category.

It would be valid to have extensions under control of a compiler switch,
but even this is unusual in the Ada arena, since portability is highly
valued.