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From: Mike Silva <snarflemike@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Robert Dewar's great article about the Strengths of Ada over
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On Mar 8, 2:04=A0am, "ME" <abcd...@nonodock.net> wrote:
> As many of may have already noticed, there has been a tremendous furor ove=
r
> the lack of multicore support in the common languages like C and C++. =A0 =
I
> have been reading these articles in EE Times and elsewhere discussing this=

> disaster with all the teeth gnashing and handwringing acting as though Ada=

> never existed. Robert Dewar ,our hero, has written an absolutely excellent=

> article with a clever intro.http://www.eetimes.com/news/design/showArticle=
.jhtml?articleID=3D206900265

Me, I'm just enjoying (in a melancholy way) the quote from the paper
Dr. Dewar mentioned:

"The 1980s will probably be remembered as the decade in which
programmers took a gigantic step backwards by switching from
secure Pascal-like languages to insecure C-like languages. I have
no rational explanation for this trend."