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patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org writes:
> Indeed Barnes, said "ease yourself into the language" and this can be
> done. Can it with Ada? Aside from toy programs that don't do anything,
> how does one start with simple useful Ada code.

I didn't see any obstacle to that.  I didn't write anything significant
in Ada, but I wrote enough to find that I preferred it to C.  Am I
missing something?