Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site reed.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!tektronix!reed!rosalia
From: rosalia@reed.UUCP (Mark Galassi)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.lan
Subject: Re: Who Wants Ada?
Message-ID: <1593@reed.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 1-Jun-85 19:05:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: reed.1593
Posted: Sat Jun  1 19:05:21 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 3-Jun-85 04:36:49 EDT
References: <11117@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Reply-To: rosalia@reed.UUCP (Mark Galassi)
Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
Lines: 13
Xref: linus net.micro:9378 net.lan:688

In article <11117@brl-tgr.ARPA> ron@BRL.ARPA (Ron Natalie) writes:
>And if the people who wrote UNIX had done it in Ada, it wouldn't
>be any better...

It would probably not be better for readability (although I know many
people who are very fluent in reading C hack), and it would certainly
be much the worse for flexibility and speed. This is what the Ada people
need to drive through their skulls: we don't want another COBOL or
Pascal! (No personal offence to "Ada people".)

						Mark Galassi
					...!tektronix!reed!rosalia
{These views are mine and should be everybody else's :-) }