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From: Harald Korneliussen <vintermann@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Current status of Ada?
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On Aug 22, 2:53 am, "Jeffrey R. Carter"
<spam.jrcarter....@acm.nospam.org> wrote:

> And some projects using Ada commercially consider it a competitive
> advantage and keep it secret.

Are you sure? It seems to me it's in the companies' best interests to
say whether they are using Ada, since Ada developers are tricky to get
hold of. Keeping it secret seems to me both difficult (what do you
write in the job ads?) and counterproductive.