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Martin Dowie wrote:

>>  What makes a programmer
>> like a new language?  Usually, someone comes along and says something
>> like "Remember that program that we spent two weeks writing in C?
>> Here's a Perl implementation that I put together in three hours and
>> one-tenth the code."  That's never happened with Ada.
>                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>FUD!!
>
>http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/crosstalk/2000/08/mccormick.html

Is FUD a reserved word in Ada?

By the way, I think that the referenced (by above URL) article does not
contradict the apparently contested (under-marked) sentence, because
circumstances are far too different in several important aspects.