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Subject: Re: Writing Linux Kernel Modules in Ada
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On 10/29/2016 02:25 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>
> My readable scale (left to right for readable to less readable):
>
> Ada > C > C++ > Rust > TECO

There's no way C should be that close to Ada. More like

Ada > Pascal > Erlang > Python > FORTRAN 66 > BASIC > languages that will 
compile/execute line noise

> (Knowledge of the last one is as the result of a certain career
> development path and I don't expect you to know the language. :-))

You're talking about the macro language of the TECO text editor? Certainly way 
up there on the write-only scale.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely
turned his tail and fled."
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