From: "Michael B." <michaelb@example.com>
Subject: Re: Augusta: An open source Ada 2012 compiler (someday?)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 20:41:23 +0100
Date: 2014-03-25T20:41:23+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lgsm50$vbg$1@speranza.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: lgopof$unl$1@loke.gir.dk
> Ada has become the American tax code. It's becoming abundantly clear
> that there has to be a massive break in backward compatibility in the
> next revision of the language that makes writing compilers easier, not
> just keeping AdaCore in business, but breaking out of the framework of
> Ada 95.
But breaking compatibility is very dangerous. Python did this and now
there are two incompatible languages: Python 2.x and Python 3.x. Many
library maintainers said, they will never support 3.x.
Pascal made the same mistake. Instead of enhancing the language, Modula
and Oberon were created. Today none of these three languages is used
anywhere.
I'm sure Ada would suffer a similar fate.
Michael
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2014-03-19 13:24 Augusta: An open source Ada 2012 compiler (someday?) Peter Chapin
2014-03-19 18:56 ` Tero Koskinen
2014-03-19 23:02 ` Peter Chapin
2014-03-20 18:13 ` Shark8
2014-03-20 22:41 ` Augusta: An open source Ada 2012 compiler (someday?) (Off topic) erlo
2014-03-20 23:21 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-03-19 23:04 ` Augusta: An open source Ada 2012 compiler (someday?) Brian Drummond
2014-03-19 23:24 ` Peter Chapin
2014-03-20 0:00 ` Brian Drummond
2014-03-20 18:35 ` Shark8
2014-03-22 14:30 ` Brian Drummond
2014-03-20 10:23 ` Lucretia
2014-03-20 10:49 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-03-20 23:15 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-03-24 8:18 ` J Kimball
2014-03-24 9:17 ` Thomas Løcke
2014-03-24 10:00 ` Brian Drummond
2014-03-24 14:16 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-03-24 12:51 ` Peter Chapin
2014-03-24 21:21 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-03-24 23:18 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2014-03-24 23:50 ` J Kimball
2014-03-25 9:37 ` Stefan.Lucks
2014-03-25 20:47 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-03-25 19:41 ` Michael B. [this message]
2014-03-26 1:50 ` Shark8
2014-03-26 20:39 ` Simon Clubley
2014-03-27 9:32 ` Shark8
2014-03-27 20:02 ` Simon Clubley
2014-03-27 20:38 ` Lucretia
2014-03-27 21:51 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-03-27 22:32 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-03-28 5:12 ` Shark8
2014-03-28 5:11 ` J Kimball
2014-03-28 8:06 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-03-28 11:31 ` Peter C. Chapin
2014-03-31 23:43 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-03-28 8:56 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-03-28 19:20 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-03-28 20:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-03-29 12:34 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-03-29 13:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-03-29 12:42 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-03-29 0:15 ` Peter Chapin
2014-03-29 3:39 ` Shark8
2014-03-29 8:46 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-03-29 16:35 ` Peter Chapin
2014-03-29 9:51 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-03-20 19:03 ` Shark8
2014-03-20 18:10 ` Shark8
2014-03-20 18:20 ` Qun-Ying
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