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True in 1993.

• modshatereality 3y ago
  cracks open the "REFERENCE MANUAL FOR THE Ada(r) PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE" looks like Ada83 specification has address clause though, which can effectively be used as a pointer when combined with System.Address / 'Address attribute. Also has access type, but you can't pass access type around all willy-nilly-like without unchecked_access (added in 95?). C pointers are more flexible though, that much is true. edit, almost forgot: the main downside of Ada < 95 is you don't get function pointers, or import/export pragma
• vba616 3y ago
  I don't remember much of Ada, but here's something very basic I liked (had to look the details up): You could declare custom integer types like this: type My_Type is range -5 .. 10; And then you could reference the range with My_Type'First or My_Type'Last And there were named parameters. for A in Range_Type loop I_IO.Put ( Item => A, Width => 3, Base => 10); ... end loop;
  • cb321 3y ago
    Nim [1] is like Ada in these ways but less verbose: import strutils # Or from strutils import repeat Or etc. type Foo = -5 .. 10 # Or range[-5 .. 10] echo Foo.low, " ", Foo.high # range limits echo repeat(s = "x", n = Foo.high) # named params # var f: Foo = 15 # Will not compile [1] https://nim-lang.org/ https://nim-lang.org/