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From: bketcham@u.washington.edu (Benjamin Ketcham)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Is Ada the future? [was: Is C++ the future?]
Date: 30 Sep 1994 20:15:54 GMT
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In article <36h4pc$9dd@starbase.neosoft.com>,
David Weller <dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> wrote:

>Agreed.  But this is a change that requires time.  C++ has gained a
>lot of momentum, but there's room for other languages (Eiffel,
>Smalltalk, and Ada).  Nobody has to come out "on top".  The real
>winner will be the language that is the most interoperable.  Guess
>which on stands the best chance? :-)

Hmmm, could it be the one with the fastest, most transparent,
and most universally *available* bindings to essentially every
OS worth using (and several which are not!), by the simple and
arguably unfair advantage of being the language said OSes were
written in?

--ben
(Want to really make Ada use take off?  Port Linux or *BSD* to Ada.)