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Subject: Re: What is wrong with Ada?
Date: 10 Apr 2007 01:33:42 -0700
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> Ahh, Thanks for that.
>
> I've seen Ada "benchmarks", and it seems the compiler is great, and
> the language seems really nice (verbose, but I kind of like that over
> languages like Haskell and such).  I figured most people didn't use it
> for business or just general popularity reasons, but I thought there
> might be some hidden "bad things" or something.

No bad thing, only bad marketing (at least in the early days)!
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