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From: Lieven Marchand <mal@wyrd.be>
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"Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com> writes:

> Perceptually speaking, I think Ada is experiencing some resurgence of
> interest in the programming community. Especially with student programmers.
> Perhaps there is becoming a realization that C/C++/Java/etc. just don't
> offer as many nice features as Ada does for serious, industrial-strength,
> larger-scale development. Hopefully, the trend will continue.

It might. When I first encountered Ada in college, I hated it, partly
because of a very bad compiler (a slow horror that tried to correct
errors by inserting random tokens under VM/CMS). Now that I've had
some experience with maintaining large programs hacked on by many
people over the years, I start to appreciate a lot of the Ada
philosophy.

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Lieven Marchand <mal@wyrd.be>
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