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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada 'hello world' for Android; success!
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Anatoly Chernyshev <achernyshev@gmail.com> writes:

> Looks like a Pyrrhic victory to me. All elegance of Ada is suddenly
> dissipated.

I gather you feel that Android is inelegant in some way; can you be more
specific?

I find my Android PDA to be much more useful than my previous Palm PDA.
And certainly easier to program at this level; there were no open source
tools for the Palm.

What would be a better platform for PDA applications?

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