From: Jeff Burns <jeff@grammatech.com>
Subject: Re: Advantages of ADA
Date: 1997/04/10
Date: 1997-04-10T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <334D533F.6018@grammatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 860627488snz@tsys.demon.co.uk
Tom Wheeley wrote:
> Anyway, everyone knows that the development of Ada was sponsored by keyboard
> manufacturers in order that programmers wear out their keyboards faster...
>
Of course this is true.
But it gave software tool manufacturers a golden opportunity to create
language-sensitive editors for Ada that reduce keyboard input.
Isn't it great how our economy works?
P.S. To the student who started this thread: Check out
http://dejanews.com/ for past postings, rantings, and ravings about the
merits of Ada compared to other languages.
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-04-07 0:00 Advantages of ADA SiliconJesus
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Jan Galkowski
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1997-04-08 0:00 ` Tom Wheeley
1997-04-09 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-04-09 0:00 ` Tom Wheeley
1997-04-10 0:00 ` Jeff Burns [this message]
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-04-08 0:00 ` Andrew Dunstan
1997-04-09 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
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1997-04-09 0:00 tmoran
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