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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because...
Date: 1996/07/15
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iKevin says

  My code is clean, simple, well
  documented, and as portable as hardware demands allow.

And later:

  And my rant here is against the arrogance of those of you who consider
  "superior skill" in C to be hack code.

Quite right, we certainly don't want any arrogance on this newsgroup do we :-)