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Subject: Re: the Ada mandate,
 and why it collapsed and died (was): 64 bit   addressing and OOP
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Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com> wrote in message news:<3EA62B54.49580F4F@adaworks.com>...

> drive the move to interfacing with C.   Also, Ada was,
> and is, designed to permit a programmer to get to a very
> low-level of programming, even to the machine code
> level, if it seems appropriate.

How many times in your whole life have you done this?
Or known of other people who have done this?

And how many instances do you know when this
was done by interfacing with C?