Not Ashamed To Use Ada! (was: Re: More Ashamedness of Ada)

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In article <112@fedfil.UUCP>, Ted Holden writes:

> You wouldn't expect them to write anything that complex in a goof language
> like Ada, would you?

I would have prefered to have responded to your article by email, but you don't
appear to have a personal address.

If you're saying this kind of thing about Ada, why do you bother reading/writin
g
to comp.lang.ada?
For your information, of the 3 or 4 Ada compilers I have used,
the DEC one is the only one where the main program is in C, and, if I guess rig
ht,
the reason for that design choice by DEC is so that they can use 'ld' to load a
nd
bind the executables - why re-invent the wheel?

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