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Charles D Hixson:

> Ada is quite expressive, but it can be very clumsy when you want to 
> write a flexible routine.  You can do it, and you can do it with much 
> greater safety, but it takes more work.
> 
> Just, for instance, look at the Ada version of:
> #include  <stdio.h>
> void main()  {  print ("Hello", " ", "World!");    exit(0);  }

with Ada.Text_IO;
procedure pied is begin Ada.Text_IO.Put("Hello" & " " & "World!"); end;

Is it so clumsy ?
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