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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??
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On Thu, 10 May 2018 13:00:24 -0700, Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
declaimed the following:

>Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> writes:
>> 	Then Ada has been doomed since 1980:
>> "Designed by committee"		(so was COBOL and it lasted)
>
>I don't see that as a problem: Haskell and Scheme were also designed by
>committees and PL geeks are very fond of them.
>

	<SNIP>

	All my quoted comments were paraphrases (hey, it's been nearly 40
years, my memory isn't that perfect) of statements seen already back in
1980.

	For my comparative language course (so small we met in a conference
room) I used
https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Ada-Introduction-Graduated-Prentice-Hall/dp/0137306970/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1525994959&sr=8-1&keywords=ada+graduated+example
and the SIGPlan preliminary RM for my presentation (following the students
who'd chosen Algol and Pascal made it easy -- I could focus on the
differences/improvements rather than reiterate the same basic language
features)





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