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From: pete@borland.com (Pete Becker)
Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
Date: 1996/02/19
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In article <312515DF.7D3B@cmlj.demon.co.uk>, chris@cmlj.demon.co.uk says...
>
>With regards to maintenance, there's many people out there who consider 
>C/C++ a Write only language.

How many of the people who say this have actually used C++ enough to 
understand it? I know it's popular today to dump on C++, but my experience has 
been that most of the people who produce one-liners like this simply don't 
know what they're talking about. If relying on that sort of ignorance is the 
best you can do to defend ADA, so be it. But I'll bet that if you try you can 
come up with arguments that are actually based on fact. Those would lead to a 
much more interesting and useful discussion.