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by musicale 1075 days ago
If you can deal with VHDL, you can deal with Ada.

Every language has its quirks. Some people can't stand Python's significant indentation. Others can't bear Lisp's parentheses. Personally I can deal with them. But any library API (say for Java or Swift) with veryLongIdentifierNamesThatAreAlmostSentences drives me insane. I imagine IDEs are enablers for that regrettable trend, but at least they save human typing.

Oberon's capitalized KEYWORDS were probably a mistake.