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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada and Its Image
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On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:47:11 +0000 (UTC), Brian Drummond wrote:

> just in case anyone here hasn't already seen it...
> 
> http://sydneypadua.com/2009/03/31/the-lovelace-adventures-pt-2/

Great!

>>Programming per SMS, an integrated developing studio for mobile phones 
>>and facebooks...
> 
> at least, a working Android port would be a good start.

A good start would be downgrading Ada's alphabet to 0-9, #, * so that new
generation of programmers could do it using only one thumb. 

P.S. Hopefully Android will die as the mobile devices mature into normal
computers. MS-DOS did that before. This time it should happen rather
sooner. There already exist tablets running Linux and Windows.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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