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Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:
> Your assertion that they are so "good" is the point that
> doesn't hold water. If you are going to promote that view,
> then you need to substantiate it. Otherwise it is useless
> information apart from existance. Existence does not
> imply stable, efficient, useful that you keep saying
> it does.

No, I'm saying that in absolute terms, people find both
Linux and Microsoft operating systems and applications
to be all of those things, and the evidence is the number
of people using them.

In c.l.a. you find many posts deriding managers who choose
to implement systems in C or C++, as if it were somehow
impossible to do such a thing. As MDC keeps saying, it would
be nice if you could point to equivalent or equivalently
large systems in Ada that would demonstrate the same thing
that Linux and Microsoft do.