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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: Improving Ada's image - Was: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics
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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote:
: Georg Bauhaus wrote:
:> 
:> [BeOS: C++. Excellent OS] Does the fact that it
:> hasn't supplanted either Windows or Linux say anything about
:> whether C++ is a suitable language for OS construction then?
: 
: No.

:> [Plan 9: exceptional C, designer wanted Modula-2]
:> Does this say something about
:> whether Modula-2 is a suitable language for OS construction?
: 
: Yes.

O.K., what in the presence of operating systems written in Modula-2?