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On 18-Apr-14 12:37, Alan Browne wrote:
>
> Ada is to programming as the metric system is to most Americans.

I completely disagree -- Ada is about thinking about your problem and 
doing things correctly... not, strictly speaking, "consistency for 
consistency's sake".

Metric does jack-shit for you in ensuring that your unit conversions are 
accurate, or that you're using the correct units at all ("I'd like a 
kilogram of meters, please").