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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: Do we need "Mission-Critical" software? Was: What to Do?
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> ... Of course when these same people work on the Ada projects,
> their Ada code looks a lot like C :-)
    There are probably some advantages to using C-in-Ada over just
plain C, but they are surely a lot less than properly and fully
using Ada.  What fraction of "Ada" code is really fully Ada, and
not C-in-Ada or Fortran-in-Ada etc?