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Subject: Re: Working with incompetent adaists / unsafe typing war story
From: "Peter C. Chapin" <pchapin@sover.net>
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Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr> wrote in
news:bbd1td.6ck.ln@hunter.axlog.fr: 

> Ada was designed to induce a change in mentalities. A change in 
> mentality is much harder to introduce than a change of programming
> language. 

I agree with this. It also works in another direction... I believe I became 
a significantly better C programmer after studying Ada. Like all good 
programming techniques, the concepts end up being language independent.

Peter