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From: "Gary Lisyansky" <gary_the_fox@richmond.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language?
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"Tomasz Wegrzanowski" <taw@pb220.legnica.sdi.tpnet.pl> wrote in message
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> - less freely available real-world example code
You lack some more Notepad clones?

> - too strong typing
Less chance to invite a user to "type mismatch"?

> - very verbose syntax
Ohhh. Sequences of "*&<<>>{}" are used to replace bad words and in C/C++. In
both cases they make the thing less understandable.

> - no printf or equivalent
It's real bad. It was such a nice way to generate tasty runtime errors!!!

Gary