Re: Oberon and Wirthian languages (was: Heartbleed)

[Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>]

On 2014-04-19, Yannick Duchêne <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> wrote:
>
> The other interesting point, is as you mentioned, is that it does not  
> suggest a new language, just an Ada subset (added it's access type which  
> is not listed).
>

Warning: if you market this as Ada version 2, then it will fail.
(There's too much negative feeling towards Ada in the market place.)

I don't see this as another Ada. I see this as starting from a Oberon
level of functionality with some Ada style features and syntax added
to make it more robust and functional.

This is no different from the cross pollination that takes place
between programming languages all the time, but it doesn't make it
Ada.

The goal would be to make something safer than C (and which can
replace C); creating the next Ada is not the goal.

However, if you get them used to this way of thinking, you can then
introduce them more easily at a later date to Ada for the large system
projects.

Simon.

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