Markus Kuhn wrote:
> The Ada community is very concerned about safety issues
> and about the readability of source code,
By what I understand, there is a fair body of Java source code
in Japan where identifiers are written in Japanese. So
"readability of source code" is perhaps a matter of interpretation.
> The presence of Unicode characters such as U+00D0, U+0110 and
> U+0189 introduces a lot of potential hazards that are best avoided by
> not allowing a too rich repertoires of characters in object identifiers.
It's very easy to catch these mechanically, though, because no sane
programmer will use more than one in a given piece of code.
(Who writes both Icelandic and Croatian/Vietnamese/Saami in the
same piece of code?)
> ([I] decided to use Ada95 for his PhD implementation project, because
> the language is at least as nice and modern as Java, but its compilers
> produce far more efficient native machine code.)
And Ada95 has a compiler available for the JVM, too.
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