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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 21:02:09 +0000 (UTC)
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In comp.lang.ada Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote:
: You said "There is no trace of "distribution", not even of
: concurrency,in C. I wonder how that distinct feature of Ada
: vs C can be discarded, economically." and I told you.
 
You said that "people have in fact written multithreaded and
distributed programs in C", to which I could, perhaps boringly,
reply that "people have in fact written multithreaded
and distributed programs in Ada". Reopening the question.

: Why do you assume that the people who narrowed down to C
: instead of Ada didn't do it because it was best for their
: project?

Well, I think I haven't, really.

Anyway, I feel like I am reiterating some old subject and
stop now.

Regards, Georg