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From: "Marc A. Criley" <mcNOSPAM@mckae.com>
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Subject: Re: Microsoft & Ada ???
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 08:15:10 -0500
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"Wes Groleau" <groleau+news@freeshell.org> wrote:

> Jeff wrote:
> > Did you notice the following on the A# website?
> >
> > "Negotiations are in progress with Microsoft to include Ada in Visual
> > Studio .NET"
>
> And then they mess with it to ensure incompatibility
> with other vendors' compilers .....

So what??

If industry flame wars started raging over MS Visual Ada versus gcc GNAT
Ada, what wonderful publicity that would be!

(Programmers always love to take sides in technical debates, y'know :-)

Marc A. Criley
McKae Technologies
www.mckae.com