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  1. Path: camelot.dsccc.com!kcline
  2. From: kcline@sun132.spd.dsccc.com (Kevin Cline)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu
  4. Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
  5. Date: 22 Mar 1996 01:21:16 GMT
  6. Organization: DSC Communications Corporation Switch Products Division
  7. Message-ID: <4isvac$kek@tpd.dsccc.com>
  8. References: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <adaworksDoBsy8.Brz@netcom.com> <4ikbar$g0k@tpd.dsccc.com> <adaworksDoL573.7vs@netcom.com>
  9. NNTP-Posting-Host: sun132.spd.dsccc.com
  10.  
  11. In article <adaworksDoL573.7vs@netcom.com>,
  12. AdaWorks <adaworks@netcom.com> wrote:
  13.  >   Nothing in the Ada 83 design precludes the creation of I/O packages
  14.  >   for other terminals, operating systems, and I/O devices.  In fact, such
  15.  >   packages abound.  How do you think people use Ada for the huge range
  16.  >   of operating systems on which applications have been deployed?
  17.  
  18. The problem I had with Ada-83 was that I became responsible for
  19. the creation of these packages.  In C or C++, I would have had
  20. a ready-made API.  Yet another Ada project start-up cost that a C
  21. developer would not have to pay.
  22. -- 
  23. Kevin Cline
  24.