2009/4/18 Aahz <a...@pythoncraft.com>: > <blink> I had never previously heard that Modula-2 significantly > influenced Ada, and the Wikipedia entry says nothing about it. Do you > have a cite?
Not in writing. I got it from a SPARK user group meeting many years ago. SPARK is, of course a subset of Ada with some mandatory structured comments, and is a successor to SPADE which was much the same thing for Pascal. When somebody asked one of the SPARK team -- I think it was Denton Clutterbuck -- why they'd gone from Pascal to Ada rather than Modula2, he observed "If you look at the SPARK subset you'll see that it pretty much *is* Modula2". So whether Modula2 was a direct influence or not, it seems to have found its way in. -- Tim Rowe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
