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Subject: Re: What would you like in Ada202X?
Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 22:06:32 +0200
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Le Sun, 06 May 2012 21:28:49 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov  =

<mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> a =C3=A9crit:
> My opinion is that the language should provide very few fundamental
> primitives rather than a forest of special cases.

I believe the opposite since long, that is, distinct high=E2=80=91level =
constructs  =

help to understand the intents of a program. But this also requires to  =

avoid redundancy (when there are too much different constructs for the  =

same intent).


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=E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1]
=E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.=
=E2=80=9D [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers=
ity