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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
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<adaworks@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message 
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> And that is the unfortunate aspect of the language:  its foundation on C.
>
> I once heard Stroustrup confess that, if he had had his druthers, he would
> not have started with C as the seed language.

Stroustrup said in an interview that his preference would have been Algol 
with classes.

I think that I probably would have preferred that as well!