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From: softeng3456@netscape.net (soft-eng)
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Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate,
 and why it collapsed and died)
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gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com (Gautier) wrote in message news:<17cd177c.0305072114.24f04783@posting.google.com>...
> softeng3456@netscape.net (soft-eng):
> 
> [Ada attributes]
> 
> > Yes, Ada extended Pascal very strongly in this regards,
> > without any particular consideration of how useful
> > these extensions would actually turn out to be.
> 
> [other Ada attributes]
> 
> > Like I said, Ada has amazing amounts of itsy-bitsy stuff.
> > Now which of these features, if missing, would take you
> > more than a minor effort to provide yourself?  If and
> > when necessary, rather than present by default all the time?
> 
> If I had to reproduce them each time I use them, it would sum
> up to a lot of time... and there are more interesting to do
> in life than reprogramming them.

Do you really need your own sub-range of integers
very often?  Arrays with variable index ranges?
You must do a very different type of programming
from what I do.