Ada conference, Ada and Spark

[Paulo Pinto]

On Friday, 21 February 2014 at 10:01:41 UTC, renoX wrote:
> On Thursday, 20 February 2014 at 08:03:47 UTC, Paulo Pinto 
> wrote:
> [cut]
>> I have been following Ada at FOSDEM for the last years, and 
>> its use seems to be increasing in Europe for safety critical 
>> systems, mainly thanks to C and C++ issues.
>>
>> Maybe this is an area where D could be pushed as well.
>
> I don't think so: given that D is "C++ done right", it would 
> require many (unlikely to happen) changes to become an 
> interesting alternative for Ada: for example changing the 
> semantic of integers!
>
> That said, one question I should ask to Rust devs is why they 
> didn't base Rust on Ada given their goals..
>
> renoX

That is easy to answer, I doubt they could with their rule of not 
having more than 5 characters per keyword. :)

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Paulo