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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: ada and robots
Date: 1997/06/04
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In article <ytxyoLAxaYlzUw5R@clanchy.demon.co.uk>, RC <rc1@clanchy.demon.co.uk> writes:
> In <33930245.12A1@sprintmail.com> by "John G. Volan"
> <johnvolan@sprintmail.com>

>>Come now, don't tell me you haven't heard of GNAT?  It runs on pretty
>>near everything (UNIX, DOS, Wintel, even Mac).  And you can download it
>>for free.  (Well, on a Mac you have to spend $99 to get Machten, a port
>>of BSD Unix that runs as a Mac app, but then you get GNAT for free. And
>>it does let you write standalone Mac apps in Ada.)
> 
> Isn't this written in C?  Seems a bit defeatist.

1. Not exactly.

2. To insist that all products one uses be written a particular
   language narrows the field considerably.  When choosing a
   compiler I would be guided by past experience of others more
   that the theoretical probability of a certain number of defects.
   For choosing an airplane run by computer my emphasis would change.

Larry Kilgallen