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From: "Steve Doiel" <nospam_steved@pacifier.com>
Subject: Re: should I be interested in ada?
Date: 1999/02/20
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Date: 1999-02-20T00:00:00+00:00
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In response to the original question... Should I be interested in Ada?

Yes.

My response is the same if you ask about Ada, C++, Java, etc.

While you may come back to using FORTRAN, I have always found
learning other languages to be worthwhile.

SteveD