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From: "Alex R. Mosteo" <alejandro@mosteo.invalid>
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Subject: Re: N best things about Ada?
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usenet@scriptoriumdesigns.com wrote:

> Serious question:  What do you consider the N best things / strong
> points / biggest benefits of using Ada?  I'm asking as part of my case-
> building for using Ada at work.  Of course I have my own list, but I
> don't have anywhere near the Ada experience of most of you folks.

Out of my head --

1. Separation of spec/impl.
2. Easy tasking/data sharing with monitors.
3. If it compiles, bugs are almost always of logic nature and not silly 
time-wasters (although there's the rare occurrence when I get too smart ;).
4. Unconstrained types that minimize dynamic allocation needs.
4.1 I guess the use of 'Class is a particular instance of this.
5. Rep. clauses, custom numeric types.
6. Easy interfacing to C.