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From: softeng3456@netscape.net (soft-eng)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada,misc.misc
Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate,
 and why it collapsed and died)
Date: 24 Apr 2003 10:50:22 -0700
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Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@crs4.it> wrote in message news:<3EA7E0E3.8020407@crs4.it>...
> [ FUT comp.lang.ada ]
> 
> soft-eng wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Yes.
> 

Hmmm.  Very interesting.

But I am sure you folks couldn't come up with some similar
pronouncements for AI as well.  How many people out there who have
years and years of Artificial Intelligence experience and
who really think Ada is the best language for this purpose?

Any at all?