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Subject: Re: How come so much traffic on comp.lang.ada??
Date: 31 Jan 1995 06:24:15 GMT
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hbaker@netcom.com (Henry G. Baker) wrote:
> I've constantly been amazed by the volume of traffic on comp.lang.ada
> relative to comp.lang.c and comp.lang.c++.
> ....
> I have a hard time believing that this is the same as the
> ratio of the number of Ada programmers to C/C++ programmers.  (One
> glance at computer selection at Barnes & Noble bookstore tells a
> completely different story.)

Perhaps there are many people trying to teach themselves C/C++ in
hopes of changing to a high paying career in computer programming.