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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Runtime startup code for the GNAT Runtime...and a bit of humble
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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:24:34 +0100
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On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:43:19 -0500, Randy Brukardt wrote:

> I think it's unfortunate that Ada has moved away from its bare machine 
> roots, because that is where the increased reliability really shined (as it 
> did on MS-DOS,

This is of course true, but it was inevitable because Ada missed
breakthrough of networking technologies as well as changes in the hardware
architecture. It was not Ada's fault. Furthermore, it is not clear how Ada
could incorporate these into the standard. That does not look doable. So
the only alternative seems to be what we have now.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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