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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@crs4.it>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada,misc.misc
Subject: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate,
 and why it collapsed
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[ FUT comp.lang.ada ]

soft-eng wrote:

> But if you
> had to develop device drivers for a living, and if
> the language was truly your choice, would you chose Ada as
> the language?

Yes.

> I think the only "yes" answers would be from
> people who only know Ada and/or have never
> written a device driver.

Who would ever choose a language they didn't know for professional work?

Jacob
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