Re: Ada explanation?

[kst@alsys.com (Keith Thompson)]

In <9501181627.AA19623@eurocontrol.de> Bob Wells #402 <wel@EUROCONTROL.DE> writes:
> I was just browsing around the WWW when I came upon "The Free
> On-Line Dictionary of Computing." I looked up Ada and found the
> following. Perhaps we can give a bit better explanation to the
> maintainer of the dictionary.

FYI, much of this description (from "A Pascal-descended language..."
up to "... vast, elephantine bulk." is from the on-line Jargon File,
also published in book form as _The New Hacker's Dictionary_,
compiled by Eric S. Raymond.

It's actually a pretty cool book, even if it's a bit harsh on our favorite
programming language.  (It also describes C as "a language that combines
all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability
and maintainability of assembly language".)

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