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  2. From: Larry Weiss <lfw@oc.com>
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++
  4. Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
  5. Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 10:52:27 -0600
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  15. ron thompson wrote:
  16. > 
  17. > dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote:
  18. > >Nasser asks
  19. > >": This is the essence of the Ada culture: top-down control where
  20. > >: programmers are subordinates of the lead architects and managers.
  21. > >: Other languages -- specifically C++ -- focus on simplifying the
  22. > >: programming activities while sacrificing some of the ease of control.
  23. > >
  24. > >Would somebody from Rational care to explain what aspects of C++ they believe
  25. > >simplify the programming activity compared to Ada?"
  26. > >
  27.  
  28.  
  29. Please remove  comp.lang.c  from future followups to this
  30.  thread ... thanks!
  31.