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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: "Classes" as packages in Ada
Date: 1998/11/27
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In article <3UU62.124$8X3.638914@news.rdc1.az.home.com>, "John Goodsen" <jgoodsen@radsoft.com> writes:

> Is it?  And that's been my point all along.  Any goals of making
> Ada generally acceptable were, IMHO, just paid a bit a lip service
> and now we've got this beautiful, powerful language that scares
> the hell out of people from trying it out.  It's a shame.

Certainly it does not scare poeple in general.
It may scare people who are terminally set in their ways.
To the extent that they are scared away, the average quality
of code written in Ada may be enhanced.

Larry Kilgallen