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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: why Ada type casting is different from other languages?
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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 12:19:53 -0700
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On 07/15/2014 11:42 AM, G.B. wrote:
>
> The authors seem to think that, for newcomers at least, it is better
> to have different syntax for different things, irrespective of
> experienced linguists' abstract views.

That some people got a book published doesn't mean they know what they're 
talking about. In a controlled experiment at West Point, it was determined that 
Ada is a better introductory language than Pascal, even though Ada uses 
parentheses for everything, while Pascal uses brackets for array indexing.

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Jeff Carter
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