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From: Thornton <thornton@AVICOM.NET>
Subject: Re: general-purpose vs. domain-specific programming languages
Date: 1998/01/13
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Robert Dewar wrote:
>
> Nasser says
>
> <<Why is it only around Ada language folks that I keep hearing about this
> DOS thing?
> who cares about DOS? DOS is dead, lets get on with it, dealing with
> anything to do with DOS is a waste of time. does anybody actually develop
> for DOS nowadays? if someone does not have $100 to buy a modern OS to work
> on, then they don't need the software anyways, and they don't need Ada either.

Minority yes, but there's still a need that can be met.