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On 2026-05-05, Arne Vajhoj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:

* programming language teams often reason like "our language
has to be the best and since language X has feature A, then
our language must also have feature A"

Sometimes, that feature is desired, but in a way that more closely fits
in with the model of the language in question instead of emulating
language X.

An example (which I have posted about before). I wanted a better way
than bitmasks for updating a bitfield in Ada so back in 2014 I put
such a suggestion to the ARG (Ada's working group for new language
features and amendments). I was asked to split it into two related
suggestions:

http://www.ada-auth.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ai12s/ai12-0127-1.txt?rev=1.27&raw=N http://www.ada-auth.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ai12s/ai12-0128-1.txt?rev=1.15&raw=N

So, yes, it's possible to provide the same functionality better in another language when you start thinking in terms of how that other language works.

Simon.
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