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From: Martin <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Alternatives to C: ObjectPascal, Eiffel, Ada or Modula-3?
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:49:20 -0700 (PDT)
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On Jul 30, 1:28=A0pm, Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Glos...@ACM.org>
wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, tmo...@acm.org wrote:
>
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> What would be the point of using Ada then? Ada is good, partially
> because it has checks.

The shootout is /completely/ about speed / resource usage "bragging
rights" and nothing to do with how languages are actually used day-to-
day.

You could alternatively start a separate 'shootout' that emphasised
other aspects of programming to highly strengths in other languages,
e.g. "Without recourse to non-language defined libraries, start 2
tasks that..." etc :-)

Cheers
-- Martin