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Marin David Condic wrote:
> A very nice analogy in some ways. Maybe more accurate to characterize it
> along the lines of "luxury" items in a car since Ada provides all the
> essentials that any programming language needs to provide. (No missing seats
> or headlights.) What's missing are things like Air Conditioning, CD Player,
> Tinted Windows, Power Door Locks, etc. The buyer takes a look at the car and

I'd like to offer a slightly different "analogy" :

_flamesuit on_

The shopper looks at the Ada car, and notices that it has seatbelts and
of course 4 doors on it. The programmer says, but I don't want to be 
restrained from accessing the outdoors -- I go through drive-throughs
a lot..

The shopper than goes down the street and settles on the C++ car
which does not have the restrictive seat belts, and of course,
_NO_ doors to get in the way ;-)  The Java car has seatbelts, but
no doors...

_flamesuit off_

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