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In article <1065@vu-vlsi.UUCP> harman@vu-vlsi.UUCP (Glen Harman) writes:
>supplement my Fortran skills with another language.  "C" has been recommended
>to me many times, and I was just about to buy a manual when I started hearing 
>about ADA.

Learn them both.  C is the assembly language, and Ada the High Order
Language (HOL), of the next ten years in the DoD community.  The DoD
doesn't much like C from a lifecycle point of view, but has trouble
denying its availability and current performance advantage over Ada
(just like assembly with respect to FORTRAN 20+ years ago).

Steve Frysinger

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Why would I waste my time expressing someone else's opinion?