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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
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On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 18:34:36 +0000 (UTC), Simon Clubley
<clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> declaimed the following:


>So how about a language which doesn't have all the software engineering
>requirements Ada does, but still comes with some type safety, has

	Wasn't that called Pascal? Or Modula-2?

>a level of functionality comparable to C, uses a syntax which makes
>it far less likely for people to make silly syntax related mistakes and

	Well, okay -- the Wirth languages still have dangling ELSE problems...
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