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From: Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada,misc.misc
Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate, and why it
 collapsed and died)
Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 10:35:50 -0700
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soft-eng wrote:

> So why do you think Ada failed?

Ada has not failed.  It has been successful in a large number of
military and non-military projects.   You may want to read my
article on the abrogation of the Ada mandate in the February issue
of Crosstalk.

                  http://stsc.hill.af.mil/Crosstalk

Actually, there are several excellent articles on programming languages
in that issue of Crosstalk.

Regards,

Richard Riehle