preventing death of a language

10.5: adda/ada/preventing death:

. when ada is refered to as a dying lang',

they must mean that the foundational req's of the lang

are precluding modernization .

. one dimension of death prevention

is ensuring that there are tools that can automate

the translation of the current lang'

to any other lang' chosen as a future replacement .

. the other problem is how to make it easy for

the transition of language tools:

these tools read the lang'

and will be broken if the lang' changes .

. one solution is to use the mono system,

where the lang' of your choice is translated to a

high-level universal lang', or cil (common intermediate lang') .

. however, as was seen in the mono spec's,

designing a high-level universal lang is not easy:

there have have been several instances of

being unable to express some feature in terms of the cil .