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From: "Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net>
Subject: Seed7 as inspiration for Ada202X
Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 06:30:41 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2014-05-15T06:30:41-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <eb2003a4-19f6-484c-9ad4-704ade02c28d@googlegroups.com> (raw)

http://seed7.sourceforge.net/faq.htm
As seen in Seed7's FAQ and reference webpages, Seed7 has a variant of some of the bold fresh features that were mentioned by various posters in the recent Ada202X-wishlist thread here on comp.lang.ada.  For example, Seed7 has:
1) types as truly first-class citizens (as objects with stage-n+1 reflection of properties of types generated in stage-n) that can blossom in the next stage of:
2) multistage programming that not only rejects modern C++'s misguided poor-man's emulation of functional programming, but also fundamentally integrates/imbues the concept of a generic/template throughout the rest of the language, which blurs the line between:
3) stage-n interpreter within the stage-n+1 compiler as a compile-time source-code-generator-like presentation of source code to the n+1 stage that not only rejects C's, C++'s, and gnatprep's misguided preprocessor, but Seed7's breadth of compile-time variant selection/generation seems to go so far as to eclipse such Ada's narrower-vision patchwork of discriminants and child-package substitution for tailoring source-code to compile in multiple variant targets or for multiple variant problemspaces.
4) extensible syntax for creating domain-specific problem-space-specific "little languages" (à la OCaml & its p4), as well as a multistage progression of compiler-frontends because:
5) all statements are effectively user-defined syntax (with some basic usual branching constructs provided as a sort of standard library);
6) multiple dispatch.

The worst complaint that I have with Seed7 is that it is not a proper superset of Ada, especially regarding the lack of low-level bit & bit-string declarations and the apparent lack of ability to declare constraints on subtypes.

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2014-05-15 13:30 Dan'l Miller [this message]
2014-06-22 12:29 ` Seed7 as inspiration for Ada202X Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
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