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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@crs4.it>
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Subject: Re: Ada in Iraq
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Hyman Rosen wrote:

> I don't why you keep harping on C++. I'm not talking
> about C++, I'm talking about whether you can take
> programmers who don't know Ada and have them produce
> a well-designed system in Ada before they acquire a
> deep and thorough understanding of the language.

It is my experience that there is at least one aspect of Ada, which it 
is hard (for me) to explain to people in a way that is easy to 
understand: tagged types

Except for that, I am actually amazed how easy it is for people with a 
bit of programming experience behind them to get up to speed with 
programming in Ada.

Jacob
-- 
"I'm going as a barrel of toxic waste!"