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From: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <nospam@gsg.eds.com>
Subject: Re: Why Ada is not the Commercial Lang of  Choice
Date: 1997/07/17
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Date: 1997-07-17T00:00:00+00:00
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Steve Jones - JON wrote:
> 
> I think Ada's problem here is that no one who has used C actually
> belives that a language that incorporates data hiding and strong SE
> principles can also access the bare metal effectively. Maybe Ada was
> just a little too good.

Nonesense! Just because someone has had the misfortune to use C doesn't
mean that his brain is rotten, or even that he likes the abysmal thing.
Some people use C because they are forced to, and are painfully aware of
its defects. For that matter, some people ase Ada because they are
forced to ;-)

> --
> |Un Loup en France  | Wolverhampton Wanderers, out of darkness cometh Bully|
> |------------Cat 1, Cha, Cha, Cha -- NERC offical drinking song------------|

-- 

                        Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
                        Senior Software SE

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