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From: "Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com>
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Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular?
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:32:24 +0100
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Maciej Sobczak wrote:

> Markus E Leypold wrote:
> 
>>>> But from what I remember in
>>>> the 1997s to 1998s
>>> Most programming languages were terrible at that time, that's true.
>> 
>> Not Ada 95 ... :-).
> 
> Ada 95 *is* terrible. It doesn't have containers nor unbounded strings
> and it cannot even return limited types from functions. Yuck! ;-)

Well, well, it *has* unbounded strings, you bad guy! ;)

> (snip)