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Lucretia <laguest9000@googlemail.com> writes:
>> What I don't understand is, why didn't the same issue apply to Pascal?
> Pascal never had packages, only later dialects did.

Well ok, but were modules (a la Turbo Pascal) not enough to trigger this
problem?

>> Is Ada really harder to compile than Pascal?
> Yes it is. See the grammar, it's very ambiguous....  You then have
> *syntactic* names all over the place which is part of overload
> resolution. .. It's tricky.

Thanks, this is an informative explanation.