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Subject: Re: the Ada mandate,
 and why it collapsed and died (was): 64 bit   addressing and OOP
Date: 24 Apr 2003 05:46:57 -0700
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tmoran@acm.org wrote in message news:<rVzpa.583781$3D1.323774@sccrnsc01>...
> > > 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?
>   My first real Ada program used some machine code inserts to control
> a video capture card.  It also used tasking to interact with the user
> and to control audio capture.  No C drivers were available.

Ok, I am sure a few instances happened.  But if you
had to develop device drivers for a living, and if
the language was truly your choice, would you chose Ada as
the language?

I think the only "yes" answers would be from
people who only know Ada and/or have never
written a device driver.