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From: Robert Matthews <ignore@ramatthews.free-online.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: If not Ada, what else...
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Alex R. Mosteo wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm a big supporter of Ada, but I'm the only person that I know that uses
> it in my work environment (mobile robotics research). Everyone is using
> either C, C++, python or java.
> 
> I ceased looking into other languages because I am so comfortable with
> Ada. I fear I may have missed some interesting boat.
> 
> Do you know of other languages worth to look at (i.e. that will make an
> Ada programmer somewhat happy), that are at least as "popular" as Ada,
> besides these ones mentioned above?

This may not be quite what you are looking for, but I find it intriguing: 
"Mercury", located at: http://www.mercury.csse.unimelb.edu.au/index.html

For an old Ada programmer the following from the web site gives me
a warm fuzzy feeling ;)

"Mercury is a new logic/functional programming language, which combines the 
clarity and expressiveness of declarative programming with advanced static 
analysis and error detection features."

Shame it doesn't have an Ada back end.

Robert Matthews