From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Seeking for papers about tagged types vs access to subprograms Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 22:44:48 +0200 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <17ceq51ydy3s0.s94miqqzbg5w.dlg@40tude.net> <1vrhb7oc4qbob$.q02vuouyovp5$.dlg@40tude.net> <19lrzzbgm77v6.1dzpgqckptaj6.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: /5uFWkegPs0CGJSoRIUiIw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.15 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:15413 Date: 2013-05-07T22:44:48+02:00 List-Id: Le Tue, 07 May 2013 22:35:01 +0200, Jacob Sparre Andersen news = a =C3=A9crit: > OTOH, that doesn't mean that a complete overhaul of Ada (but keeping = > most of > its core principles intact) wouldn't be a good idea. The main thing is= = > that > the result most certainly would not be Ada, but rather would be a new > language *inspired by* Ada. (That might even be a good thing, as it wo= uld > allow Ada-haters to take an unbiased look without realizing Ada was > involved.) If such a language had clear advantages over Ada 2012 (and = = > few or > no clear disadvanatges), it would be likely that many Ada users would = = > make > the switch. That was indeed the idea (and just an idea or a wish). -- = =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