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From: kanze@us-es.sel.de (James Kanze US/ESC 60/3/141 #40763)
Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use Ada?
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In article <3blinp$8dm@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert
Dewar) writes:

|> I am happy to see technical points in comparison of languages, but this
|> argument is non-technical and in the long run less relevant than people
|> imagine. Note that the only technical point that Gareth made was that
|> somehow all the strong typing etc. in Ada would make people's life
|> harder, which is of course nonsense, and presumably is nonsense borne
|> of ignorance.

I can't resist pointing it out.  Using strict type-checking *does*
make writing programs harder.  Writing correct programs is difficult.
You actually have to think about what you are doing, and maybe even do
a bit of design before writing, rather than just banging in a bunch of
code, and dropping into the debugger at the first sign of a core dump.
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