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• ADA is the COBOL of the 80's.
• Ada programmers do it by committee.
• Ada programmers do it in packages.
• Real computer scientists regret the existence of PL/1, PASCAL and LISP.
  ADA is getting there, but it is still allows people to make mistakes....
• Ada is the 400-pound gorilla of programming languages.
• Real computer scientists admire ADA for its overwhelming aesthetic value but they find it difficult to actually program in it, as it is much too large to implement.
  Most computer scientists don't notice this because they are still arguing over what else to add to ADA....
• Real programmers don't write in PASCAL, or BLISS, or ADA, or any of these pinky computer science languages.
  Strong typing is for people with weak memories....