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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich Kulawiec
> Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 1998 8:33 PM
> Contrast this with the ADA language, a gargantuan monstrosity that only
> a military bureaucrat could love.
That's "Ada." It's not an acronym. Like Pascal or Java, not COBOL or
FORTRAN.
Note, too, that both C++ and Java are much larger than Ada 95
by just about any measure you could name, including size of
the specification, number of rules in the grammar, number of
keywords, and number of violations of proper O-O architecture.
It is larger in the number of host and target machines supported
by validated compilers.
I for one am very happy that more and more systems that I trust
with my life, like the avionics for the Boeing 777, are programmed
in Ada.
Bob Munck
Writing Ada since 1978, including applets for the Java VM.
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