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Subject: Re: Robert Dewar's great article about the Strengths of Ada over
	other langauges in multiprocessing!
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On Mar 9, 6:31 pm, "Jeffrey R. Carter"
<spam.jrcarter....@spam.acm.org> wrote:
> Maciej Sobczak wrote:
>
> > You are right.
> > In the same way, nobody every wrote a GUI program in Ada, nor a
> > networking program, nobody did any cryptography in Ada, etc. These
> > languages are almost completely useless nowadays, sigh.
> > I accept this way of reasoning - but it does not change anything in
> > the industry practice.
>
> I've written a VGA driver/library from scratch entirely in Ada (for DOS) and
> built graphical programs on top of it. I've written cryptographic code in Ada.
> I've worked on projects that implemented networking in Ada. That's hardly
> "nobody"; it's just a question of how much experience one has.
>
> --
> Jeff Carter
> "Crucifixion's a doddle."
> Monty Python's Life of Brian
> 82

Sign me in "nobody club".  I am beta testing Video Network Management
server in Ada (Linux/Windows transparent) works incredibly well and
took only 3-months from start to beta!

George :-)