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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada, Modula-2, 2,
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john@peppermind.com writes:

> 7. Slightly unintuitive and overloaded core syntax of Ada (e.g. "with"
> and "when", pragma, alignment clauses)

Pragma and alignment clauses are hardly core! And what about static (for
example).