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For many projects to be delivered in other languages,
I still do the initial coding of the algorithmic parts
in Ada to get the simpler bugs out sooner.
I know that identifies me as a less
than perfect programmer who still inserts bugs
into programs, but so what? I am a hacker,
and I design by making and integrating
together a series of working prototypes.
I don't prototype my setl, sql, or snobol programs in Ada.
But I do prototype my c-like language algorithms
(including algorithms to be delivered as java, awk,
python, etc.).
The advantages of doing these little algorithms in
Ada first is the speedup I get in developing
in Ada and converting to something else, versus
putting up with the unhelpful error messages
and lack of compile time checking in other languages.
Mike Brenner
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