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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Oberon and Wirthian languages
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 10:35:46 -0700
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On 04/19/2014 04:50 AM, Ludovic Brenta wrote:
>
> So, Oberon-14 or whatever its name is should not only reinstate
> subranges but also allow the definition of incompatible scalar types.
> If it did support all of the desirable features above then it would
> effectively almost become Ada :)

That would make the language unsuitable for its intended purpose of replacing C 
for S/W like OpenSSL.

My experience (unfortunately on more than one example) of Ada designed and 
written by coders is that they eschew user-defined numeric types and numeric 
subtypes. They pick a few numeric types, predefined if at all possible, and use 
them for everything, just like C.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"It's all right, Taggart. Just a man and a horse being hung out there."
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