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From: Preben Randhol <randhol@pvv.org>
Subject: Re: Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses.
Date: 1999/09/28
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Marin David Condic <condicma@bogon.pwfl.com> writes:

| I'm sure there will be lots of comments with lists of Ada benefits over C.
| The only real benefit C has over Ada is that it is more popular and as a
| result you can find more tools & libraries in C. Other than popularity,

I wouldn't overstress this angle. A parallell example could be Windows
vs. Linux.
 
-- 
Preben Randhol     [randhol@pvv.org]    [http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/] 
 "If you had just boarded an airliner and discovered that your team 
  of programmers had been responsible for the flight control software, 
  how many of you would disembark immediately?"             -- unknown