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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Ada95 speed
Date: 1999/06/07
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In article <7jer69$j8n@lotho.delphi.com>,
  tmoran@bix.com wrote:
> >In those days, I was as big a fan of APL for the kind of work
I was doing
> >as I am of Ada today.
> There is more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents ... ;)


Actually, Ada does not BEGIN to compare in ease of use to APL
for programs for which APL is well suited. Ultimately Ada is
still an efficiency-oriented lowish level language, and cannot
compete for ease of expression with true very high level
languages like APL. That's not a criticism of Ada, just a
reminder that Ada is NOT the only useful language in the world
(and you should recognize this even if you are an Ada fan :-)


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