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From: Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: N best things about Ada?
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 expounded in news:97691fd2-7411-4ccc-bc7b-290aca633cd5
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> Serious question:  What do you consider the N best things / strong
> points / biggest benefits of using Ada?  I'm asking as part of my case-
> building for using Ada at work.  Of course I have my own list, but I
> don't have anywhere near the Ada experience of most of you folks.
> 
> Thanks.

In addition to all of the other posts:

- Variant records (vs C unions)

Having proper "checked" variant records has 
saved my bacon many times in a large project.

There is nothing better than early bug detection!

Warren