Re: Seeking for papers about tagged types vs access to subprograms

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

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"Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> wrote in message 
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Le Mon, 06 May 2013 14:11:32 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov
<mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> a écrit:
>> Yes it does. That was a flaw of Ada 95 design. I guess it was the maximum
>> of what Tucker Taft could press through fierce opposition.
>
>Fierce opposition from who? For what reasons? What did Tucker initially 
>wanted?

WG 9 thought that Ada 95 had grown way too large and was too much of a 
change. That led to the infamous "scope reduction", where many important 
things were thrown out (including finalization). The Ada 9x team snuck 
several of the ideas back in toward the end (including finalization, 
renaming of library units, and more), and some of the other ideas have 
resurfaced in more recent versions of Ada.

I'm of the opinion that WG 9 was right, in that the market could only handle 
so much change to Ada. We lost many compiler vendors at that time as it was, 
we might have ended up with none if the language had been too ambitious. 
OTOH, the cutting probably went a bit too far.

                                     Randy.