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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com>
Subject: Re: When will Ada big moment arrive? what is missing?
Date: 1999/05/26
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In article <dale-2605991800560001@r1021c-17.ppp.cs.rmit.edu.au>,
  dale@cs.rmit.edu.au (Dale Stanbrough) wrote:
> Chris wrote:
>
> " Ok, I'd like to start an open discussion on the above
subject.
>
>   We all know that Ada is stil a nich language in the
commerical world.
>
>   It has been that way for over 20 years.
>
>   Yet, we all know that Ada is a great language, many of use
>   will say the best of all current languages.
> Does ACT think that Ada is a better language than C++ or Java
> (if it were fast enough) for implementing compilers

Yes

> and if so why?

<<consider the tens of thousands of lines of text and thousands
of posts talking about the advantages of Ada to have been
inserted at this point>>

Surely there is no point in having another (incestuous :-)
thread where we post messages about why we think Ada is a good
language!


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