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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: C versus Ada (once again :-)), was: Re: F-22 ADA Programming
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On 2014-11-01, Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com> wrote:
>> There's also the possibility that Ada may be a step too far for the
>> average C programmer. Instead we should consider the possibility of
>> a half-way language which is better (safer) than C but not as strict
>> as Ada and would have ease of implementation/porting as one of it's
>> goals.
>
> This sentence sounds like a 100% description of C++.

It would also be nice if it applied to some scaled up version of a Wirth
style language such as Oberon with more Ada style syntax and a simplified
(and less strict) version of Ada's type system added.

Not as safe as Ada, but potentially much safer than C.

The ease of implementation comment refers to the compiler itself BTW,
so it would be easy to bring up the compiler (either native hosted or
as a cross compiler) for a new environment.

Simon.

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