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From: David Botton <David@Botton.com>
Subject: Re: The future of Ada
Date: 1999/03/28
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I agree, Even when I can't use Ada for the final product I very often
prototype in Ada since it offers many abstractions not found in Java and
C++. The problem here is a lack of familiarity with the tools at hand,
not the language.

David Botton


John McCabe wrote:
> 
> "Michael Garrett" <michaelgarrett@csi.com> wrote:
> 
> >I am just learning Ada, and it is frustrating sometimes to realize that I
> >can not just sit down and code something, even to try it out.
> 
> I can't understand where you got that idea from. I find with Ada I can
> just sit down and code something, and most times, if the language
> allows what I've written, what the compiler produces does what I want.
> 
> I could never say that about using C.
>