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On 2014-06-11 15:52, Luke A. Guest wrote:

>> However, mobile applications live in a different universe, it seems to
>> me. In that universe a different feature set is probably best. Ada isn't
>> the ideal language for all programming! So I think it's a good thing
> 
> Really? There's a ton of apps for ios written in c++, you really think Ada
> doesn't belong?
> 
> If there was an Ada compiler for ios, would you use it?

Probably not. I suppose it would depend on the alternative languages.
I'd use Scala in that domain instead of Ada if it were available.

Peter