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From: talarson@covenant.edu
Subject: Re: ADA is the most worthless language
Date: 1997/01/04
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dstubbs@cymbal.aix.calpoly.edu (Dan Stubbs) wrote:

>In article <58f5jj$1o7@news.fsu.edu>,
>Grizidy <gjs8639@garnet.acns.fsu.edu> wrote:
>>Is there anything that ADA is good for?  Does anybody still use it?  
>>Isn't it older that Bob Dole?
>>

>First of all, its Ada not ADA. Thats one tip off that you don't know
>much about Ada.

>Ada happens to be a terrific language. Its implementation of objects
>is so much cleaner than that in C++ it is surprising anybody uses
>C++ for teaching about OOP.

>The current version of Ada is Ada95. I guess that makes it about one
>year old. Ada's principal developer is Tucker Taft--probably one of
>the top ten computer scientists in the world.

>From the subject line, it appears that Grizidy doesn't know much
about the English language either.