Dennis Lives

Dan Odom danodom@matt.ksu.ksu.edu
Wed, 21 Jul 1993 10:56:37 -0500 (CDT)


Gary D. Duzan Said:

>    On another note, what is the group's opinion of Ada? Rumor has
> it that GNU Ada is around the corner, so it might be another option
> for implementation language.

Ada?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?  ARRRRRRRRRRRRGH!  Remember that evil, vile Pascal
language that we all have/had to use in school?  Ada was based on it.

Ada was a language designed by a comittee, and it shows.  It is huge
and bloated.  I would most definitely prefer to avoid it.

-- 
Dan Odom
danodom@matt.ksu.ksu.edu -- Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

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