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Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 16:13:10 -0400
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Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers?
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Jim Rogers wrote:
> And people have made pictures by glueing colored stones to a
> background. This does not make the use of C or C++ either a
> best technical choice or a best economical choice for multithreaded
> designs.

I didn't say that C or C++ was the best choice. I just said that since
it is possible to write multithreaded and distributed programs in C and
C++ (and these are in fact written all the time), the fact that Ada has
these features built in to the language while C and C++ require libraries
is not enough in itself to dismiss C and C++ from consideration.