InfoWorld sings praises for Ada

InfoWorld sings praises for Ada

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On page 44 of the July 5th issue of InfoWorld, a leading weekly
newspaper for personal computing, Bob Metcalfe writes an article
encouraging C developers to move to Ada.

In the several years that I've been a subscriber to InfoWorld,
this is the first time I've seen the "A-word" mentioned (and,
by the way, there's a great joke at the beginning of the 
article that may give some insight as to why :-).  Better still,
he talks about the _free_ Ada resources available (OK, he 
only mentions the GNAT project and the AdaIC BBS, but it's a start!).

Now, I don't expect to see Ada vendors flocking to InfoWorld to
take out full page advertisements, but I do see this as a sign.
In the last several months, I've talked to more and more C/C++
programmers who no longer uncontrollably snicker when I say
"Ada".  I certainly hope this is the start of a trend.

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