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Subject: Re: the Ada mandate,
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snarflemike@yahoo.com (Mike Silva) wrote in message news:<20619edc.0304240953.221ac70f@posting.google.com>...
> softeng3456@netscape.net (soft-eng) wrote in message news:<9fa75d42.0304240503.54dbc5d1@posting.google.com>...
> > 
> > If Ada projects had actually succeeded in producing good quality
> > software, it would have been everywhere today.
> 
> Yeah, I see your point.  Kind of like why nobody runs Windows anymore.
> 
> Mike

Works for me (plus several million other people.)

I even used Unix for years, even when it DIDN't
work 1/10th as reliably as today's Windows.

It's good to see operating systems progress to
the point where anybody off the streets can
realiably use them and the only people complaing
about the reliability are ones with axes to grind.