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From: Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com>
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Subject: Re: Future with Ada
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 21:18:14 -0800
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Hyman Rosen wrote:

> Michal Nowak wrote:
> > Another issue when learning a programming language is if the learner
> > likes it. Maybe that is why learning Ada came rather easily to me.
>
> I know I have a visceral dislike for the Pascal-style languages.
> Pascal, Modula-N, Oberon, Ada - they all just rub me the wrong
> way when I look at them. It's hard for me to appreciate that Ada
> is intended to be reader-friendly when my brain is going "yuck"
> whenever I look at some code.
>
> Hmm. Wirth, Ichbiah, you - maybe it's some sort of Europe/America
> thing :-)

There is a credible rumor that the we are on the verge of a world-wide
shortage of curly braces.    When we exhaust the remaining supply,
everyone will have to switch to some language not in the C family.  :-)

Richard Riehle