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From: Robb Nebbe <nebbe@iam.unibe.ch>
Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because...
Date: 1996/08/05
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Kevin D. Quitt wrote:
> 
> On 31 Jul 96 10:36:37 GMT, dirk@hera.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de (Dirk
> Dickmanns) wrote:
> 
> >What made me looking at Ada was
> >the extreme commitment to Ada of people using C before... think about
> >it.
> 
> Curious.  It's that's same commitment to C from former Ada programmers that
> makes me so leery of Ada.  Especially since these are all people whom I
> consider to be good programmers (not a distinction I give lightly).

I've seen the same situation with Fortran and C. A very good Fortran
programmer is forced to use C for a while. They never attain anywhere
near the mastery of C that they had of Fortran and then they go
running back to Fortran at the first opportunity. 

There are two problems here. They were forced to use another language 
which tends to color people's perception and they were never in a
position where they could actually make a rational decision between the
two languages because they knew one language much better than the other.

Robb Nebbe