T.J. Duchene wrote:
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> ADA! I remember that! I've not used it in the better part of 20
> years. Nicely designed language for its time - and very strict.
> Having learned C in advance of ADA, I never liked its Pascal style
> operators.
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> Too bad the only one who really uses it in the US is the government.

Actually, not true. ADA seems to have a major following in the
real-time control systems community, for mission/life-critical systems
like avionics and SCADA. Not surprising, actually - it was designed for
that kind of thing.

Miles Fidelman

--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra