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From: David Rasmussen <david.rasmussen@gmx.net>
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Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping
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Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 14:19:11 +0100
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Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> "Carroll-Tech" <andrew@carroll-tech.net> writes:
> 
> 
>>I tell the students that I tutor that learning some Pascal or Ada
>>would help them and they get scared.  I mention doing a project in
>>Ada and everyone looks at me like I'm out to punish myself.  To me
>>it isn't any easier to use C/C++, Java, Perl, Lisp or Prolog than it
>>is to use Ada.  How is it that Ada has this "super powerful", "super
>>difficult", "there's not much call for it because it's too advanced
>>and powerful" air about it when it's just another language?  It's
>>like saying that the machine code spit out of an Ada compiler has
>>some mystical, magical properties that makes the Ada language more
>>difficult to use.
> 

I don't know. Ada rocks.

/David