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Subject: Re: why learn C?
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<adaworks@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message 
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[snip]
>
>....   I have colleagues who use both languages who realize
> that C++ is far more error-prone than Ada.    While one can get a
> good set of working software in C++ using heroic efforts, the chance
> of errors in a C++ program is much higher in a corresponding program
> written in Ada.   I find it strange that anyone who understands both
> languages well would come to any other conclusion.
>
> Richard Riehle
>

Me too.

Steve
(The Duck)