advantages or disadvantages of ADA over pascal or modula or oberon was RE: advantages or disadvantages of ADA over pascal or modula

["Robert C. Leif" <rleif@rleif.com>]

The site is at the Computer Systems Institute at the Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology. It opened for me. The following may be of interest.
http://www.bluebottle.ethz.ch/oberon.net/
http://www.bluebottle.ethz.ch/oberon.net/projectGoals.html
The Oberon.NET site has a set of goals:
Our idealistic goal in the Oberon for .NET project was the design of an
interoperable, imperative object-oriented language that is simpler, more
economical, more powerful and better scalable than comparable programming
languages. More specifically, our goal was a language that: 

Preserves the spirit of Oberon. 
Disentangles different concerns like code reuse, polymorphism, sub-classing
etc. 
Emphasizes the view of software development as implementation of predefined
abstractions. 
Unifies the logical structure of programs and distributed systems. 
Is able to interoperate with other participating languages both as a
consumer and as a producer. 
Maps naturally to the .net framework
I believe that these could be met by SPARK or the equivalent.
http://www.bluebottle.ethz.ch/oberon.net/ActiveOberonNetWhitePaper.pdf
is a description of the language. It would be well worthwhile for the Ada
language architects to read this. Oberon blows away Java.
Bob Leif

-----Original Message-----
From: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org [mailto:comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org]
On Behalf Of John R. Strohm
Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 1:38 AM
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Subject: Re: advantages or disadvantages of ADA over pascal or modula

"AG" <ang@xtra.co.nz> wrote in message
news:joSR9.11275$F63.197247@news.xtra.co.nz...
> > > > Addison-Wesley ACM Press ISBN 0-201-54428-8.
> http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/.
>
> Just a quick question and maybe a warning [?]
>
> Clicking on that link resulted in a flurry of activity
> from Zone Alarm Pro on my machine (it's been
> more or less quiet for some months now).
>
> Checking  the logs turned up things like
> "Generic Host ..." but also specific blocked
> destinations called    "dump.inf.ethz.ch"
>
> Matched with the link above that doesn't
> look too good. Any comments?

Beats me.  That is the official Oberon site at ETH-Zurich in Switzerland.