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From: "Brett M. Kettering" <brettk@llnl.gov>
Subject: Re: What good is Ada ???
Date: 1997/01/06
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Ah Chong wrote:
> 
> I have to take Ada this quarter.
> 
> It is actually Data Structures in Ada.
> 
> But why learn Ada?
> 
> Why not Java ?
> 
> --
> Philip Chong
> CS Major
> Georgia State University

The Data Structures class that I took required the use of Fortran 77 (I
took the class in 1986) because the language had none.  We learned about
data structures by adding them as library features to the language.

Brett