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Subject: Re: If not Ada, what else...
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On Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 7:22:17 AM UTC, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Georg Bauhaus writes:
> > why would C, say, be better for prototyping than Ada? When would SETL,
> > or Python, or BigEEMathSimPack be better suited?
> 
> See:
> 
>     Haskell vs. Ada vs.  C++ vs. Awk vs. ...: An Experiment in Software
>     Prototyping Productivity
> 
>     by Paul Hudak and Mark P. Jones
> 
>     http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~apt/cs457_2005/hudak-jones.pdf
> 

1994, still not Ada 95, C++ w/o stl etc. I wonder how this would look today.