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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: general-purpose vs. domain-specific programming languages
Date: 1998/01/13
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Thornton said

<<zero interest?  Admit it, there is some interest.  Probably more so with
new users and students like myself.
>>

I mean zero interest from our customers. 

There are also people who are enthusiastic about the Amiga, and would
no doubt like us to do an Amiga port, or ....

But interest to us means commercial interest, it is the people who pay
who keep the GNAT project steaming along :-)

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies

P.S. Maybe there are students around who use DOS, none of my students
are using DOS, they are all using Win95, Linux or NT.