From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 17:31:57 -0500 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Seeking for papers about tagged types vs access to subprograms Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 18:32:03 -0400 Organization: > Bestiaria Support Staff < Message-ID: References: <17ceq51ydy3s0.s94miqqzbg5w.dlg@40tude.net> <1vrhb7oc4qbob$.q02vuouyovp5$.dlg@40tude.net> <19lrzzbgm77v6.1dzpgqckptaj6.dlg@40tude.net> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.249.17.129 X-Trace: sv3-fExqem5zb/mFQDcEhhGzjA9DL8m/NX7ztV8cRhjhvmxaS/no/tgNUAMJX5cmosncvJygGJG3x2aZQd/!eVgBZFT55nzKli+M9xz64z70CRqhkT3l3USHl4Rs28/vT00gcxo7+hpTVxpYnEB1/YuWaUNjgF1g!wBfRyt2VBtBBxqxnp8JT5MF4hbXXgRTVWnIMuBqrOQ== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2373 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:15416 Date: 2013-05-07T18:32:03-04:00 List-Id: On Tue, 7 May 2013 15:35:01 -0500, "Jacob Sparre Andersen news" declaimed the following in comp.lang.ada: > OTOH, that doesn't mean that a complete overhaul of Ada (but keeping most of > its core principles intact) wouldn't be a good idea. The main thing is that > the result most certainly would not be Ada, but rather would be a new > language *inspired by* Ada. (That might even be a good thing, as it would > allow Ada-haters to take an unbiased look without realizing Ada was > involved.) If such a language had clear advantages over Ada 2012 (and few or > no clear disadvanatges), it would be likely that many Ada users would make > the switch. > What would you call it? AdaPT (Ada-Prime Transform ) -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/