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Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate,
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"soft-eng" <softeng3456@netscape.net> wrote in message
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> I agree that total cost is hard to measure.  My point was that
> a language like Ada SEEMs like it is great for software
> development.  And it is indeed great for academic exercises.
> But actual software development doesn't suffer much from
> the maladies Ada targets (it suffers from different ones.)

How about you cite a few URLs to back up this claim?