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From: do_while@ridgecrest.ca.us (Do-While Jones)
Subject: Re: C/C++ cheaper than Ada?? how?
Date: 1998/07/08
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In article <6nubua$ocj@drn.newsguy.com>,  <nabbasi@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>what do you think they mean by saying C/C++ is "cheaper" than Ada? in 
>what sense?

Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary gives this definition of
"cheap":

"3 a : of inferior quality or worth : TAWDRY, SLEAZY b: contemptible
because of lack of any fine, lofty, or redeeming qualities " 

Perhaps that's what they mean. :-)

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>GOVERNMENT NEWS 
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>GCN June 22, 1998 
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>http://www.acm.org/archives/wa.cgi?A1=ind9806&L=team-ada#5
>
>"Defense is increasingly turning to cheaper programming languages 
>such as C and C++ to program its systems.


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