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On 2022-06-30 17:48, Marius Amado-Alves wrote:
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> Jeff, great document (and great name:-) My impression is that it is maybe too much Adaist... except that modules don't have state?! That sounds very limiting to me.

I don't know what you mean by "too much Adaist". I have always maintained that 
Ada 83 is a very good language, and remains a better language than most of the 
popular languages in use today, so I unashamedly use it as the basis for King, 
along with lessons learned, good features from later versions of Ada, and some 
ideas of my own. No software-engineering language will ever be popular, so I see 
no reason to deviate from Ada-like syntax.

Modules can have state, though in many cases you'd use a module type or passive 
task.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because
they require hard work and discipline to
achieve and education to be appreciated."
Edsger Dijkstra
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