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From: "Michael B." <michaelb@example.com>
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Subject: Re: Augusta: An open source Ada 2012 compiler (someday?)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 20:41:23 +0100
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> 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