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From: "P S Norby" <psnorby@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: the Ada mandate,
 and why it collapsed and died (was): 64 bit  addressing and OOP
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"soft-eng" <softeng3456@netscape.net> wrote in message
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> Any itsy-bitsy feature *will* be found wonderful by somebody.
>
> That's exactly the problem -- because there were so
> many itsy-bitsy features in Ada, a novice needed to
> learn all of them, because somebody somewhere finds
> it useful and it will be found in real-world code.
>
> Having tons of features in auxiliary libraries
> in the "C" style make mastering the language much simpler
> by chunking the task of learning without complicating
> the syntax issues.
>

But mastering just the "C" syntac is never enough... you will need to master
the libraries.  So why is that any easier?  And if it's so easy (to learn
"C"), Why do the ad's all want 5+ years experience?