>Ada has some really good ideas which its a shame never took off or got used outside of the safety critical community that mostly used it. The ability to make number types that were limited in their range is really useful for certain classes of bugs.
As pjmlp says in a sibling comment, Pascal had this feature, from the beginning, IIRC, or from an early version - even before the first Turbo Pascal version.
As pjmlp says in a sibling comment, Pascal had this feature, from the beginning, IIRC, or from an early version - even before the first Turbo Pascal version.