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From: kaz@vision.crest.nt.com (Kaz Kylheku)
Subject: Re: Is ADA as good for graphics programming as C?  (WAS: Re: Avoiding
 the second historic mistake)
Date: 1997/06/23
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Date: 1997-06-23T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <harrison-2106970827440001@apm1-87.realtime.net>,
Tim Harrison <harrison@acm.org> wrote:
>> Well, I must admit that I haven't done anything
>> in Ada since 1983, and even then it was small programs.
>
>Enough said...Perhaps someone with Ada experience would be better suited
>to answer this question.
>-- Tim Harrison <harrison@acm.org>

According to some of the material I have read via the adahome WWW page,
Ada allegedly had a ``bad'' reputation for poor performance due to an early
batch of compilers that didn't generate very good code. But that was fifteen
years ago.