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From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: status of Ada STL?
Date: 19 Jun 2002 07:35:08 -0700
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18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ) wrote in message news:<bebbba07.0206182158.3cfaecdc@posting.google.com>...
> The problem is not that Ada is not like Python or even C or C++. The
> problem (or, rather, one of the problems) with Ada is that it uses
> non-standard syntax compared to ALL of the major languages in use in
> industry today. That includes C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, and perhaps

Baloney. The majority of all software in use right now is Cobol. Cobol
doesn't use "=" at all. On the strength of Cobol alone, "=" assignment
is in the minority. Add to that all the code in Delphi (heavily used
in application development), Lisp-based funtional langauges (almost
universal in AI applications), Modula-based languages (heavily used in
the auto industry), VHDL (heavily used in the chip design biz), and
APL (a sentimental favorite of mathematicians). Perhaps then you will
begin to see that you are just looking at one niche in the software
industry who's main claim to fame is that you happen to live in it.