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> Of course. That was understood. But anyone learning a new
> language struggles with the compiler at first. That was
> the point I was making (granted that C is much more
> forgiving also).

Sure, that's true.  My point was that many see
that Ada is much less frogiving and abandon it
_without_ ever arriving at the evidence that
there's a good reason for being less forgiving.