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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: a new language, designed for safety !
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On 2014-06-12, Shark8 <OneWingedShark@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10-Jun-14 06:42, Lucretia wrote:
>>> >For general programming for which C would be used, if you want to get
>>> >your typical C progammer using something safer than C, I still think
>>> >my Oberon-14 idea represents the general path to take: create a
>>> >"safer", not "safe", language with some of the basic Ada concepts
>>> >transplanted into it and which is easy for a C programmer to learn.
>>
>> I have thought of something similar. I'll have to try to find your idea and take a look.
>>
>
> It is essentially having a different 'target'/'low-level assembler' than 
> C [for intermediate/bootstrapping]. -- I'm more in favor of using Forth 
> for that purpose.

The idea behind Oberon-14 is to replace the language used (C) for
writing common widely used libraries and other utilities with a
language which is safer and easily learnable by a typical C programmer,

IMHO, Forth is far too alien a language for your typical C programmer. :-)

Simon.

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