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From: Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Advice on selling Ada to a C shop
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BrianG expounded in news:hvu7ap$r2s$1@news.eternal-september.org:

> Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
>> On 6/20/2010 5:29 PM, Ludovic Brenta wrote:
>> 
>>> Show them that no, C is not "good enough".
...
>> Many large applications are written in C all the time, the problem I 
>> think, is that it takes more skill and effort to produce as reliable 
>> code in C as with Ada, but it can be done, given more effort, skill, 
>> time and money, and lots of coffee.
>> 
> Coffee?  Coffee?  I thought "real coders" always relied on Mt.Dew, or 
> Jolt.  Or today maybe Red Bull, etc. :-)

Many of those programmers became diebetics ;-)  So coffee
is better (black) that way. 

"Real programmers drink it [coffee] black".

Warren