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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada++
Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 21:09:48 -0500
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On 5/28/2020 5:33 PM, Jerry wrote:
> Ada++. YABL? Please discuss.
> http://www.adapplang.com/
> 

I do not know if this is real or just a joke.

But I do not like Ada++. I actually prefer the Pascal type constructs
which Ada uses, which is explicit "Begin" "End" and "If" "Then" "Else",
"LOOP", etc...

I do not like brackets {}. I find the Pascal constructs
more algorithmic and makes the code and the logic more clear.

btw, I do not think changing Ada syntax to make it look like C and C++
is  the solution to making "Ada" become more popular. If so, then
they should change Ada to make it use Python syntax in that case :)

--Nasser