Re: Advantages of ADA

[tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk (Tom Wheeley)]

In article <1997Apr9.083840.1@eisner>
           kilgallen@eisner.decus.org "Larry Kilgallen" writes:

> In article <860521154snz@tsys.demon.co.uk>, tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk (Tom Wheeley)
>  writes:
> > In article <5ibs79$l8l$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>
> >            dale@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU "Dale Stanbrough" writes:
> > 
> >> SiliconJesus writes:
> >> 
> >> "I was wondering if everyone could pitch in and help me write a paper for
> >>  my CS class.  I'm doing a paper on the advantages and disadvanteges of
> >>  ADA, I know many of the disadvantages and was wondering if you could give
> >>  me some input on the advantages."
> >> 
> >> It's easier to spell than Pascal or Fortran, but not as easy as C.
> > 
> > But like C, ADA is palindromic.
> 
> Which certainly is an advantage of ADA over Ada !

I'd put it as a disadvantage, as with Ada you are less likely to put things
backwards...

Of course, if you tell someone you know Ada, they are likely to be impressed
that you know a language which most people haven't heard of, and thus haven't
suffered from :-)

Anyway, everyone knows that the development of Ada was sponsored by keyboard
manufacturers in order that programmers wear out their keyboards faster...

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