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From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <jrcarter@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular?
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adaworks@sbcglobal.net wrote:
> 
> Every programming language isbe error-prone at different levels, including
> Ada.   The question is how error-prone a language might be.  On a continuum
> of more error-prone to less, Ada is at the end of the scale for less error-prone
> _____________________________________________________________
> More 
> Less
> Error-prone            ------------------> 
> Error-prone
> 
> Assembler       C                           C++           Java    C#         Ada 
> SPARK
>                     COBOL-68       COBOL-85   Objective-C        Eiffel
>                                    Early PL/I                        Recent PL/I
> ______________________________________________________________

Nice concept. Not a very good presentation on my newsreader. Maybe a 
vertical orientation would be better.

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Jeff Carter
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