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From: Pete Fenelon <pete@fenelon.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 01:33:01 +0000
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In comp.realtime Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com> wrote:
> Ludovico Brena wrote:
>> Most of Ada's syntax is inherited from Pascal.
> 
> I think Modula-3 was the prime inspiration but never having used it I 
> could be wrong! :-)

Modula-3 *post*dated Ada by some years; it was designed in the late 80s
and unfortunately "missed the bus" - Ada was (at the time) very expensive,
C++ was (at the time) immature and unstandardised, and for a while I
hoped that Modula-3 would become the language of choice for large-scale
maintstream OOP/procedural programming.

Ada-83's ancestry is, as many have observed, mostly Pascal. (IIRC, three
of the four languages that got to the DoD's bake-off were Pascal-based; 
a fourth was PL/1 based. Algol-68 was the other language identified as a
possible basis for the DoD's language, but no (directly) Algol-based
language made it that far.)

pete
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