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From: munck@mindspring.com (Robert Munck)
Subject: Re: Why Ada is not the Commercial Lang of Choice
Date: 1997/06/17
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Date: 1997-06-17T15:06:27+00:00
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On 17 Jun 1997 08:30:33 GMT, Dale Stanbrough
<dale@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> wrote:

>Paul Van Bellinghen writes:
>Claim:
>It is much easier in C, for example, to output a data word to
>an I/O device that is memory mapped.
>
>Yes, it is all so much more clearer now. Thank you Paul.

Hey, come on, Dale.  Sarcasm doesn't do him or Ada any 
good, and just encourages the image of Ada people as
arrogant.  Show him the Ada to do the same job that
he shows in C, with appropriate "programmer-friendly"
constructs.

Bob Munck
Mill Creek Systems LC