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On Thursday, August 9, 2012 3:57:24 PM UTC-6, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> On 8/9/2012 3:50 PM, Patrick wrote:
>=20
> So, if and when we see an announcement of visual Ada by Microsoft, is
> the day Ada will suddenly become popular and cool :)

That would be cool and, to be honest, if they'd simply started with Ada as =
the base for .NET's CLR -- that is, making the the CLR inclusive of everyth=
ing Ada's RTL needs -- they would have had support for basically 2/3rds to =
3/4ths of basically 4th version of C# (IIRC/IIUC) right with the first rele=
ase.