Who Wants Ada?

[Mark Galassi]

In article <11117 at brl-tgr.ARPA> ron at BRL.ARPA (Ron Natalie) writes:
>And if the people who wrote UNIX had done it in Ada, it wouldn't
>be any better...

It would probably not be better for readability (although I know many
people who are very fluent in reading C hack), and it would certainly
be much the worse for flexibility and speed. This is what the Ada people
need to drive through their skulls: we don't want another COBOL or
Pascal!

						Mark Galassi
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{These views are mine and should be everybody else's :-) }