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From: Hyman Rosen <hyman.rosen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: The future of Ada is at risk
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On Jan 11, 3:49 am, Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homep...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ada lacks libraries. The standard library is close to disaster and too
> many times when I was asking for something here I heard "do it
> yourself".

Just as an example, take a look at <http://www.microsoft.com/express/
samples/>,
for what Microsoft makes available for free to C# and C++ developers.
Included
is a full 2D and 3D game engine, for example.