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"Warren W. Gay wrote:
> Looking backwards to '95, I think it can be fairly stated that things
> were a bit different than today. For one, Linux was in its infancy,
> and Windoze was still discovering the inet. GNAT was still in its
> infancy. I believe has done a much to promote the "general purpose"
> usefulness of Ada. This is certainly true at least of the open sourced
> community (which may be a small subset of Ada users worldwide).

Windows discovered the internet before '95. And Linux was even then very
much network focused at the time.

> If Ada95/Ada0X is ever going to become ubiquitous, it must overcome
> many many barriers, and having general purpose facilities (like sockets)
> is very important. </SOAP-BOX>

Agreed.


greetings,