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Subject: Re: Do we need "Mission-Critical" software? Was: What to Do?
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In article <93fpth$697$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
> True, but very likely they were not around when the x86 was
> invented either, and actually Jovial was still in active use
> as recently as ten years ago

as recently as ten years ago ... :-)
That explains a lot ...
Embedded programming is truly very important (I hope nobody felt
offended by what was said about Jovial) but it's far from being
everything in software world.
For all the rest, I suggest you seriously consider updating your time
scale notions of what's going on in modern softwares :-)
I thought first Gnat versions much younger but anyway highly obsolete :-
)



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