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From: Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>
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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 9 Mar, 04:15, "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter....@spam.acm.org>
wrote:

> You may have been writing multithreaded SW in C plus a threading library, or in
> C++ plus a threading library, but you haven't been writing it in C or C++.

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.

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Maciej Sobczak * www.msobczak.com * www.inspirel.com