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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?
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message 
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> On Sat, 30 May 2015 06:21:01 -0700 (PDT), jan.de.kruyf@gmail.com wrote:
...
>>> Few syntax problems Ada has come straight from Wirth himself. E.g.
>>> different syntax for declarations of subprogram types and values 
>>> (bodies)
>>> from other types and values. Wirth seems never cared much about types.
>>
>> Believe it or not he did, but he has never been known to be paranoid.
>
> He himself wrote as a title: Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs

Ah, yes, one of my old college textbooks. The professor of the class had 
never used it before, and we ended up spending lots of class-time trying to 
figure out how the algorithms should work. They were riddled with errors. 
Apparently, running the sample programs was a novel concept. (Dunno if those 
problems were fixed in a later edition, hopefully. I've heard from others 
that they thought the book was useful, so YMMV)

                           Randy.