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Jacob Sparre Andersen <jacob@jacob-sparre.dk> writes:
> If you can find Pascal/Delphi programmers, then the trick is to hire
> them a year or two before you retire, so you can get them started in Ada.

What's that about?  The surface syntax is similar but is there not a lot
more going on?  I try to imagine my own prospective learning curve to
become good at Ada, and Pascal/Delphi is about 1% of the way there.