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From: Duke Normandin <dukeofperl@ml1.net>
Subject: Re: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used?
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On 2010-05-23, Anonymous <cripto@ecn.org> wrote:
>> Nothing too terribly mind-boggling! ;) Just don't want to spend the time
>> learning a "soon-to-be" fossil of a language, with no where to go but in a
>> museum.
>
> No risk there, Ada was a fossil in 1983. But it's one of those fossils we
> love and it's just too good to die.
>

;)

I'm twice Ada's age, and feeling a little fossil-ly myself. Hope I can hang
in there like Ada has. ;)
-- 
Duke Normandin 
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