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Subject: Re: general-purpose vs. domain-specific programming languages
Date: 1998/01/09
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In article <692v45$cpi@top.mitre.org>, mfb@mbunix.mitre.org says...

>Right now backwards compatibility has to be maintained with Ada-83
>because Ada-83 compilers are the only ones that have correct
>implementations on DOS, such as Alsys. If gnat could be fixed
>on DOS, just to the point where it does what Alsys did, then
>the backwards compatibility issue goes away. That is a big
>drag on the free development community.

Why is it only around Ada language folks that I keep hearing about this
DOS thing?
who cares about DOS? DOS is dead, lets get on with it, dealing with 
anything to do with DOS is a waste of time. does anybody actually develop
for DOS nowadays? if someone does not have $100 to buy a modern OS to work
on, then they don't need the software anyways, and they don't need Ada either.

Nasser