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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada,misc.misc
Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers?
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 14:11:45 +0000 (UTC)
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In comp.lang.ada Kaz Kylheku <kaz@ashi.footprints.net> wrote:
 
: Ada is a high level assembly language like C, Pascal, Modula, PL/I and
: so on. It's suitable only for stone age systems programming. It
: doesn't matter at all which of these types of languages you use for
: this kind of programming; the choice is purely pragmatic based on the
: non-technical factors that make some languages more preferred than
: other languages for programming some platforms.
 
Wow. Generic polymorphic objects being high level assembly, and
modern LISPs proudly presenting bit manipulations. Interesting times
full of technical "arguments"...

- Georg