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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Oberon and Wirthian languages
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Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:

> Notable features absent from that list include generics, type
> extension, dynamic dispatching, subtypes of non-scalar types, nested
> subprograms and overloading.

Looking at the dates, I suspect that type extension & dynamic
dispatching weren't a part of Ada for most if not all of the period over
which the evidence was gathered.