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Date: 9 Sep 93 17:03:49 GMT
From: rational.com!geneo@uunet.uu.net  (Gene Ouye)
Subject: Re: TRI-Ada '94 Topics
Message-ID: <1993Sep9.170349.27754@rational.com>
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Robert Dewar (dewar@cs.nyu.edu) wrote:
: The suggestion of a talk from an organization using Ada in a non-mandated
: setting seems a good one to me. An obvious candidate is Silicon Graphics.
: Not only are they using Ada for all their virtual reality stuff, but also
: they strongly claim that they could not have succeeded in this task using
: C++ and it would be interesting to here why.

I second this.  I would love to hear objective, business-case discussions
on why an organization chose Ada over C++ without any "just pick Ada cuz
C++ sucks and anyone who uses it must be a hack that only uses unsafe and
intentionally obscure constructs" diatribe.

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Gene Ouye (geneo@rational.com)   Rational, Bethesda, MD
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