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From: Tom Moran <tmoran@bix.com>
Subject: Re: Any research putting c above ada?
Date: 1997/04/17
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> why should I have different data types?  The variable names used to 
> accumulate the results are quite adequate
   Certainly you can make long names that include the type - that's
partly what Hungarian notation is about.  You can also enclose simple
int's in structs.  The C programmer who's willing to be very verbose
*can* do all this in C with no difficulty offered by the compiler.  But
an Ada compiler actively *helps* the programmer so he needn't verbosely
do it all himself.  (This is bizarre, since C used to sold as 'short and
elegant and fewer keystrokes'.  I guess that all goes away when you want
to be careful.)