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From: smosha@most.fw.hac.com (Stephen M O'Shaughnessy)
Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because...
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In article <31e02c32.342948604@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov>, 
kdq@emoryi.jpl.nasa.gov says...

>  For someone who knows what they're doing, it's just as easy to write good, 
clean, safe code in C (or assembly, or *any* language) as it is in Ada.
>

No it is not.  It is *possible* in any language, but not *just as easy*.  If 
that were true, then all languages would be the same.  They are not.