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From: Natasha Kerensikova <lithiumcat@instinctive.eu>
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Subject: Re: Ada platforms and pricing, was: Re: a new language, designed
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On 2014-06-19, Peter Chapin <PChapin@vtc.vsc.edu> wrote:
> Actually a "strategic" goal of my project is to make people from both
> communities aware of each other. While the Ada people here tend to say,
> "why would you want to use [insert name of some non-Ada language] for
> anything?"

I find myself thinking more and more often in those terms (except
always at the first person, I'm not claiming anything for anybody else),
a bit to my surprise.

It's just that Ada is so good in its explicitness, readability,
maintainability and reliability that I find myself reluctant to give up
such comfort.

(And I fully agree that Ada is far from perfect, it's just much more
comfortable to use than all the other languages I've come across.)

>            I'm about 100% sure the Scala people on the other side would
> say, "Ada? Huh...?" However, in my view both are fine languages, each in
> its own way, and it would be cool to bring the communities together even
> if only in some small manner.

We'll see how it goes, at least it can't hurt :-)

> In any case, I certainly am not claiming that my project will provide
> any useful degree of compiler diversity... at least not in the
> foreseeable future.

Well, I'm not claiming mine will either, I just foolishly hope it will.


Natasha