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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada,misc.misc
Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate,
 and why it collapsed and died)
Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 10:23:09 -0400
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"soft-eng" <softeng3456@netscape.net> wrote in message
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> Yes, each and every single itsy-bitsy feature of Ada can be justified in
some
> way or the other.

This statement demonstrates your unwillingness to have a reasonable
discussion.

> The key is that by putting all these large number of trivialities in
> the language, you make sure the language will be very large.

Define large language and large number of trivialities.  For that matter
define trivial language feature.