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From: kcline@sun132.spd.dsccc.com (Kevin Cline)
Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
Date: 1996/03/22
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references: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <adaworksDoBsy8.Brz@netcom.com>
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Date: 1996-03-22T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <adaworksDoL573.7vs@netcom.com>,
AdaWorks <adaworks@netcom.com> wrote:
 >   Nothing in the Ada 83 design precludes the creation of I/O packages
 >   for other terminals, operating systems, and I/O devices.  In fact, such
 >   packages abound.  How do you think people use Ada for the huge range
 >   of operating systems on which applications have been deployed?

The problem I had with Ada-83 was that I became responsible for
the creation of these packages.  In C or C++, I would have had
a ready-made API.  Yet another Ada project start-up cost that a C
developer would not have to pay.
-- 
Kevin Cline