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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Teaching C/C++ from Ada perspective?
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"Maciej Sobczak" <see.my.homepage@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:3a162a7e-4e87-4fb5-9b39-423811271ef3@googlegroups.com...
>> What an incredibly jaw-dropping disregard of history.
>
>On the other hand, declaring that the leading (and in some sense the only)
>Ada compiler is broken and that the only Ada compiler worth its name is
>R1000 is a jaw-dropping disregard of the present.

It's also a fact: the Apex compiler is/was the gold standard of compilers, 
and nothing else has come close.

There's not a heck of a lot good about the present (in pretty much any venue 
that you look in!). Market dominance says nothing whatsoever about good 
(this is clearly visible in programming language usage!).

                         Randy.