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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Build language with weak typing,
 then add scaffolding later to strengthen it?
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 16:54:01 -0500
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I wrote:
> "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> wrote in message 
> news:mk29dv$l47$2@dont-email.me...
> ...
>> Anyway, if you took the ARM, got rid of all the things Oberon doesn't 
>> have,
>> eliminated the precision of the definitions and any "unnecessary" 
>> verbiage,
>> you'd probably end up close to Oberon's 17 pp.
>
> I think you could leave in most of the Ada features and still describe 
> them with that level of precision. The one sentence that J-P quoted could 
> replace the entirety of 4.9-4.9.1(5 pages). One probably could come up 
> with a similar description of visibility, replacing the majority of 
> Chapter 8 (16 pages). Shrink the fonts, eliminate the white-space, and 
> voila! About 17 pages.

Besides, no one said anything about the page size. If we use coffee-table 
art book page sizes, and 6 point type, we can probably get the entire core 
RM in 17 pages without changes. ;-)

> Ergo, the whole discussion is silly. Which is probably why we're having 
> it. :-)

I couldn't have said it better myself. :-) :-)

                                Randy.