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From: "Bob Spooner" <rls19@psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: What is wrong with Ada?
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"Brian May" <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au> wrote in message 
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>>>>>> "Pascal" == Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net> writes:
>
>    Pascal> Why do they like fighting a language all the time
>
> People I have talked to avoid Ada because of the perception (real or
> otherwise) that you have to fight the language all the time, and there
> is only one way of doing things[1].
>
> Not that I agree with this reasoning.
>
> Notes:
>
> [1] Unlike in, say Perl, where there are many ways of stating exactly
> the same thing.

When I find myself fighting the language, it usually means that I need to 
revisit my design.
-- Bob