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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: Tue, 6 May 2003 14:47:05 +0000 (UTC)
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In comp.lang.ada Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote:
: Georg Bauhaus wrote:
:> Because people have done something means what?
: It means that it can be done.

SPITBOL (and SNOBOL4) has been written in assembly
language. Can be done. Are languages of its type written
in assembly language?
 
You can write functions working on trees or graphs in 
Fortran 77. Can be done. Do you prefer choosing a language
for your recursive matters such that you will have the freedom
of managing the stack yourself?

:> Because people have not done something means what?
: That we do not yet know whether it can be done.
 
Or that they have known it was not a good idea to do it.

:> Does that mean anything in a general language comparison?
: We're not talking about general language comparisons.
: We're talking about a company choosing an implementation
: language for a project.

So narrow general down to what is best for some project.
In particular, the projects mentioned here recently.