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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:14:41 +0200
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On 6/21/10 2:29 AM, Ludovic Brenta wrote:

> Actually, a common excuse for people who refuse to try Ada is to say
> that the cost of learning Ada, the compiler, the libraries and the IDE
> is expensive.

When people argue about the cost of learning Ada (in terms
of language, compiler, and libraries) they have accepted
the terms of a kind of rational discourse.  You can continue
quite logically,

"So there will be relative advantages, then, after having
learned Ada?"