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From: "Stanley R. Allen" <Stanley_R_Allen-NR@raytheon.com>
Subject: Re: Desirability of C++
Date: 2000/05/09
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"E. Robert Tisdale" wrote:
>  
> I'm sure that C++ programmers can see
> or at least ought to be able to see the value of Ada.

What makes you so sure?  The hacker mentality is everywhere
in the computer field (including among developers using Ada)
but it seems to be most prevelant among C and C++ programmers
because the culture of those languages encourages that mentality.

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