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Date: 27 Jul 93 23:29:53 GMT
From: szamos@beaver.cs.washington.edu  (Janos Szamosfalvi)
Subject: Re: An Apology to Mr. Ada on "Ada Sucks"
Message-ID: <1993Jul27.232953.18607@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
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In article <1993Jul27.211933.1428@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> Cobarruvias@asd2.jsc.nasa.g
ov (John Cobarruvias) writes:

>[...]
>We need to sit back and ask "Why are we defending Ada?" and "Why should
>we?". Do we see C or C++ people wasting their time defending the merits of
>the language? Or Fortran, Cobol, Lisp, Algol, Jovial, people? NO! They are
>too busy using the damn language! Only Ada folks defend their language.

I've seen too many C vs. Pascal, Pascal vs. Basic, C++ vs. Ada, etc.
flamewars, so I can safely say that those people *DO* defend their
language.   Or another way, everyone defend their favorite language.