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From: "David Botton" <David@Botton.com>
Subject: Re: Ada and Java. different behaviour. casting long to int problem.
Date: 1999/06/17
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Markus Kuhn wrote in message <7kb9ep$hej$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>...
>Mark Hood <hood@eng.sun.com> writes:
>For me, Ada95 combines the best of both the C and the Java world:
>High performance, low-level access as well as type safety, and comfort.
>It is amazing how underhyped this equally young language is
>compared to Java in the trade press. But then, who asks the trade
>press ...
>


Don't forget that it also affords you the engineering tools for programming
in the large that C and Java don't have and C++ is only attempting to deal
with now.

David Botton