From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 X-Received: by 2002:ac8:5d8f:: with SMTP id d15mr3837602qtx.350.1622214071080; Fri, 28 May 2021 08:01:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a25:da8a:: with SMTP id n132mr12925329ybf.504.1622214070959; Fri, 28 May 2021 08:01:10 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder5.feed.usenet.farm!feeder1.feed.usenet.farm!feed.usenet.farm!news-out.netnews.com!news.alt.net!fdc3.netnews.com!peer02.ams1!peer.ams1.xlned.com!news.xlned.com!peer01.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!news-out.google.com!nntp.google.com!postnews.google.com!google-groups.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 28 May 2021 08:01:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2a02:1206:4564:bea0:f8df:153e:7473:4eb9; posting-account=gRqrnQkAAAAC_02ynnhqGk1VRQlve6ZG NNTP-Posting-Host: 2a02:1206:4564:bea0:f8df:153e:7473:4eb9 References: <5afvagd0g4uajs1ji35v3lorkgb2kd56qu@4ax.com> <87wnrkf9pr.fsf@nightsong.com> <37c582bb-3012-4954-a26c-5d9614ac0c84n@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2,2,Oberon, Delphi, Algol,...) failed compared to the C family? From: Gautier write-only address Injection-Date: Fri, 28 May 2021 15:01:11 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Received-Bytes: 1763 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:62042 List-Id: Interestingly, the HAC Ada Compiler ( https://hacadacompiler.sourceforge.io/ , https://github.com/zertovitch/hac ) is a distant descendent of Pascal-S by Wirth and identifiers are searched linearly via a linked list. And yes, the compiler is very fast :-).