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From: Peter Amey <peter.amey@praxis-cs.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 09:38:23 +0000
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Wes Groleau wrote:
> xpyttl wrote:
> 
>> "Preben Randhol" <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org> wrote in
>> message news:42309456$1@news.broadpark.no...
>>
>>> C++ programmers will claim to their death that they are infallible and
>>> everybody else isn't. However, none of them seem to understand how
>>
>> ignorant
>>
>>> they are...
>>
>>
>> And this is different from Ada programmers how?
> 
> 
> That's certainly an exaggeration about C++ programmers,
> but it's not even close to an Ada programmer.  An Ada
> programmer likes Ada because he/she knows he/she is NOT
> infallible.
> 

This looks like the cue for my favourite quote.  It was told to me by 
the man who taught me to fly.

"The superior pilot uses his superior judgement to avoid those 
situations that would otherwise require his superior skill".

Although it is about flying, it is also the reason I use Ada (and 
particularly SPARK) --- so that I don't have contantly to flaunt my 
superior skill :-)

Peter