Re: Ada statement

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In article <3848@aldebaran.cs.nps.navy.mil> schweige@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (Je
ffrey M. Schweiger) writes:
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>So tell me, what can't you do in Ada that you can do in C (not necessarily
>by the same method, and with the same ease)?  I'm not saying that one language
>might not be better than another for specific applications, but I felt your
>comment merited some response.  I don't view it as a case of 'political
>correctness.'  Ada compilers have been written in Ada.
>
A masterful understatement, Jeff. The Janus, TeleSoft and Alsys compiler
families, accounting for a significant proportion of the validations,
are all written in Ada. For the record: Verdix codes in C, Meridian in
Pascal and C, DEC (still I think) in BLISS.

Mike

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