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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: What Mac developers think of Ada !
Date: 1999/10/29
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In article <381A0466.2137859E@mbox5.singnet.com.sg>,
  ps750@mbox5.singnet.com.sg wrote:
> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 04:29:48 -0400
> From: "Ronald C.F. Antony" <rcfa@cubiculum.com>
> Subject: Re: Coding Darwin in Ada 95
>
> > If Darwin is to be unique among the unixes, why not rewrite or
> recompile
> > the bulk of the Darwin OS (written in C++) in Ada 95 (high level OO
> > procedural-based language, ISO 8652:1995) instead of Objective C or
> C++
> > ?
>
> Because a) it's a lot of work, b) means everything would have to be
> reoptimized from scratch, c) C and Unix are like Strawberries and

a and b here are decent points, and are probably the real reason. The
rest of the post is pure hogwash.

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