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From: "Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.FrankLho@rcn.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada,misc.misc
Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate,
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Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 21:53:55 -0400
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"Kaz Kylheku" <kaz@ashi.footprints.net> wrote in message
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> softeng3456@netscape.net (soft-eng) wrote in message
news:<9fa75d42.0304240950.45114a39@posting.google.com>...
> Although Ada may be wonderful for device drivers in principle, in some
> platforms you will only find the hooks, toolchain support and run-time
> support for writing your driver in C. Boo hoo; you may have to trade
> one idiotic language for another, what a loss!

You're right. From now on, I'm going to write all my drivers in Smalltalk.