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tm wrote:
> That is exactly the area where Ada left the path of Pascal. Pascal
> was designed to be easy to implement. Nicklaus Wirth had good
> reasons to keep the implementation simple. He once said (IIRC):
> 
>   What can be parsed easily by a compiler can also be
>   parsed easily by a human and this can be an asset.

The converse, however, is not necessarily true: that which cannot be 
parsed easily by a compiler sometimes still can be parsed easily by a human.

This will remain so until strong AI is developed.