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>>Give them the Boeing 777 story to read:
>><http://www.adaic.com/atwork/boeing.html>

hee-hee.  Some said "Ada is too immature"
How many of us know fifty-year-olds that
never grew up?   C is like that.

C becoming Java is like Peter Pan finally reaching puberty.

OK, let me be a little more serious.  Can we partially
equate "mature language" to "high-order language" ?

I am just finishing up a college course in Java.

Reflecting back on the good, the bad, and the ugly:

Good:

  - All the times (not as many as I was led to expect)
    where I saved time by calling some existing standard
    library instead of writing my own.

Bad:

  - All the times (not as many as I was led to expect)
    where I wasted time repeatedly writing low-level
    implementations of things that Ada has built in.

Ugly:

  - Line after line of defined integer constants to
    get the readability benefits of enumerated types
    with not even a hint of their type safety.

  - Most "roll-your-own" imitations of high-level
    language features are seriously less readable
    than built-in versions.

  - (A.multiply(A)).add (B.multiply(B))  instead of
    A * A + B * B