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From: "tony gair" <tonygair@nounsolitations.btinternet.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada Operating System
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"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
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> Joel Sherrill wrote:
> > I have always enjoyed the irony that C/C++ supporters enhancing RTEMS
> > are improving it as an Ada run-time. :)
>
> It's not really ironic. Remember that, while the Ada world thinks of
> C/C++ as the enemy and the competition, the C/C++ world barely realizes
> that Ada exists, and certainly wouldn't mind giving it a helping hand.
>

I think the C++ /Ada rivally is born of some peoples need to gang fight.
I would look like at C++ and Ada not as friends but as occasional lovers
who don't use any contraception.
Ada and C++ offspring  include
1) GNAT translator
2) Gtkada
3) ......

GNAT and GTKada would not exist in their present useful form without
C++

and many C++ programmers would not exist if their planes or trains or
automobiles
had not used Ada with their subsystems.

PS you could also say there would be a lot more innocent civilians around
without
Ada or C++ supported weapon systems.