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From: john@nospam.demon.co.uk (John McCabe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ada in Iraq
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 08:02:35 +0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 09:15:38 -0700, Jerry Petrey
<"jdpetrey<NOSPAM>"@raytheon.com> wrote:

>Hyman Rosen wrote:
>
>> Preben Randhol wrote:
>> > C++
>>
>> 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.
>
>Hyman,
>
>I understand your point.  I think some of the worst code I have ever seen has
>been Ada written by people who still think in their old language (Fortran, C,
>etc.) and who have not taken (or been given) the time to learn Ada properly.

You mean where all discrete variables are integers to avoid explicit
type conversion etc? Lovely!



Best Regards
John McCabe

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