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From: Phil Clayton <phil.clayton@lineone.net>
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Subject: Re: ADA made me hate programming
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:14:36 -0700 (PDT)
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On Jun 30, 9:36=A0am, tonyg <tonytheg...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> You should think yourself lucky we had three major languages (I won't
> say taught) we were told to use our projects with
>
> 1) ML
> 2) 68000 assembly
> 3) Ada
>
> so most of us loved Ada

ML is probably more extreme in terms of compile time errors - I can
see that some type errors would be horrendous for a novice.  However,
having had the opportunity to spend the best part of 10 years
developing tools in ML (SML) to analyze Ada programs, I count myself
incredibly fortunate!