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From: bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan)
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Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use Ada?
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Date: 07 Dec 1994 09:48:40 GMT
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In article <5994@gec-mrc.co.uk> paj@gec-mrc.co.uk (Paul Johnson) writes:
   ... I worked on an Ada project that tried to do exactly that.  We had
   huge files of definitions, but the type system still kept getting in
   the way. ...

At the end of the project was it acknowledged that the design was
(probably) wrong or was Ada blamed for the problem?