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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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Date: 2012-04-25T11:14:59-07:00
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On 04/25/2012 02:09 AM, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
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> 0) Which features do you think can be dropped from Ada?

Interfaces
Tagged types (but retaining finalization for record types)
Child packages with visibility of their ancestors

These would return Ada to its original vision as a language for programming by 
composition.

-- 
Jeff Carter
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