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Subject: Re: Microsoft is considering moving to Rust; potential opportunity
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Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:57232
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On Tuesday, October 1, 2019 at 2:04:07 AM UTC-6, Mehdi Saada wrote:
> > About the time Ada83 was standardized, Microsoft emphatically declared=
=20
> > that it would never (never!) support or have anything to do with Ada.
> Really ? What the heck happened with them ? How come did they start harbo=
ring such hate?

I don't know; but some years ago I had the fortune of talking to someone wh=
o had been involved in a company doing an evaluation/audit of the Windows c=
ode -- around version 2, or perhaps 3.1 (before Windows for Workgroups 3.11=
) -- and he related to me that his company recommended a rewrite in Ada.

Of course Microsoft didn't follow the recommendation, but it's interesting =
that they had the recommendation made to them.