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From: "E. Robert Tisdale" <edwin@netwood.net>
Subject: Re: Desirability of C++
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Pat Rogers wrote:

> > Does it matter?  The fact is that
> > more programmers are learning and using C++ than Ada.
>
> Cite references, please.  Otherwise you are propagating myth.

It isn't necessary to cite an authority
when you can determine the truth of the statement
directly through observation.

Are you maintaining that
more programmers are learning and using Ada than C++?
I didn't think so.