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From: tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran)
Subject: Re: Time to join the fold?
Date: 1999/01/24
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>I was talking about
>experienced programmers, with NO Ada or C experience, using C or Ada
>for the first time on a real, non-trivial project.
Ah, I thought you were talking about programmers experienced in the
language, presented with a new project.
  It was a long time ago, but I vaguely recall C as being difficult to
learn - "if" statements with semicolons as statement
separators/terminators, pointers instead of arrays etc.  I came then
from an Algol/Fortran/COBOL/asm background.