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“When Roman engineers built a bridge, they had to stand under it while the first legion marched across. If programmers today worked under similar ground rules, they might well find themselves getting much more interested in Ada!”
“C treats you like a consenting adult. Pascal treats you like a naughty child. Ada treats you like a criminal.”
“For none of the evidence we have so far can inspire confidence that this language has avoided any of the problems that have afflicted other complex language projects of the past.... It is not too late! I believe that by careful pruning of the ADA language, it is still possible to select a very powerful subset that would be reliable and efficient in implementation and safe and economic in use.”
“Beyond 100,000 lines of code you should probably be coding in Ada.”
“If you're masochistic enough to program in Ada, we're not going to stop you.”
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