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From: Craig Franck <clfranck@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because...
Date: 1996/08/12
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"James A. Squire" <m193884@csehp3.mdc.com> wrote:
>Craig Franck wrote:

>> I think part of the resistance to Ada is C belongs to the world.
>> Ada belongs to the government! :-)
>
>Yesterday's news.  Today this is no longer true, conceptually.
>Implementation may take awhile yet, but the Ada language is going
>commercial.  Count on it.

You are correct. When I made this statement, I used as a referece
some old texts, that are clearly not up to date. Time to go to
Barnes & Noble and buy something on Ada 95! Perhaps that way my
comments will be more likely to correspond to the current state
of the language. 
 

Craig
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