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John R. Strohm wrote:
> About 90% of programming in Ada is pretty much the same as programming in
> any other decent language.  Most of the lines in Ada AREN'T rep specs or
> tasking calls or instantiating generics.

But there's also string handling, and OO, and interfacing with C,
and dynamically sized arrays, and streaming, and visibility, and
use clauses, and overloading, and who knows what else.

When people set out to design a software system in Ada, and they
don't know Ada throughly and deeply, how likely is it that the
design will be "good Ada", as opposed to a bastard version of
the language that they do know?