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David Botton <david@botton.com> writes:
> You could say that about every version even the first. 

Well, the big win of Ada 2012 is SPARK integration, it seems to me.
There's nothing like that for D.  I looked at the Wikipedia page about D
and didn't see much to recommend it over Ada, except garbage collection
which puts it in a different class of languages.  For desktop and server
applications I like lightweight concurrency, garbage collection,
functional idioms, and maybe even dynamic types, but for low level
systems code Ada is still looking good to me.