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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to
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Date: 1998/02/18
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<<Actually, Ada is described as a complex language in a lot of places.
  However, most of them just address one or two words, so that they are
  worthless for me. >>

Yes, well you will often find people who know nothing at all about Ada
express the opinion that Ada is a complex language!

Dave Parnas made this claim in print at one point in Government Computer
News, and I challenged him to a debate on the issue. It was all set up,
and was to be televised, but then Dave was unable to participate because
of health reasons. Too bad, it would have been a nice forum to address
this unfounded impression.