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Subject: Re: PAR (Was: Embedded languages based on early Ada)
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From: Ray Blaak <rAYblaaK@STRIPCAPStelus.net>
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Ray Blaak <rAYblaaK@STRIPCAPStelus.net> writes:

> "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
> > One thing I'm absolutely certain of is that "par" would never, ever appear
> > in Ada. That's because Ada keywords are always complete English words
> 
> This is a trivial issue. The difficult is agreeing on the semantics, on
> whether the construct itself, as a syntactic convenience, is worth the
> trouble. Myself I think it is, or it would encourage the exploration of
> parallel program development. 

*for* it would encourage...

I like the "par" construct idea.

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