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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: 25 Apr 2003 06:01:10 -0700
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Robert Spooner <rls19@psu.edu> wrote in message news:<3EA836D4.1020004@psu.edu>...
> soft-eng wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Yes. It's 10X the speed of lisp for our application.
> 

All right!!  And now, can we have someone come up to
claim Ada is the best for rule-based applications?

How about it being the best teaching language?