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Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
> Original Message From taw@users.sourceforge.net
> 
> >In article <3B59EE1C@MailAndNews.com>, Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
> >>>What class(es) of programming problems does Ada
> >>>solve that C++ can't?
> >>
> >> What programming problems does C++ solve that Assembly language can't?
> >
> >Portable programming.
> 
> Not always, believe me. :-)
> 
> Vinzent.

OS/2 died a grizzly death because it was too costly to port/extend it to 
newer platforms (I understand it was largely assembler code). You never 
saw  OS/2 on the Alpha, but you did see windows there. Hmmm... I wonder 
what the difference was? ;-)

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