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by pyjarrett 533 days ago
About two years ago, I was able to dive into the Ada reference manual formatter which has initial commit of March 2000 and is about 45k lines of code, and add MDX output pretty easily.

Other languages focus on terseness and expressiveness. Ada expresses a bunch of constraints directly and forces you to do things in organized ways (e.g. use namespaces appropriately).