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Hyman Rosen wrote:
> about C++, I'm talking about whether you can take
> programmers who don't know Ada and have them produce
> a well-designed system in Ada before they acquire a
> deep and thorough understanding of the language.

Yes.  If you can produce a well-designed system
in any procedural language, then you can do it
in any other procedural language.

Unless you define "well-designed" as
"using all the language features in the most effective manner."

The fact that "decent" does not equal "best"
doesn't mean that is does equal "terrible"