In <[email protected]>, on 09/30/2013
at 02:25 PM, David Crayford <[email protected]> said:
>There is no doubt that Ada is a much, much better programming
>language then PL/I, C, COBOL etc.
I could make a case for PL/I, and there are languages that are clearly
better than Ada for specific niches, e.g., Icon, SETL. Still, as a
language available on lots of platforms and not beset by booby traps,
it's hard to beat.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
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