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Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular?
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"Markus E Leypold" 
<development-2006-8ecbb5cc8aREMOVETHIS@ANDTHATm-e-leypold.de> wrote in 
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> Unfortunately, even agreeing Ada is the "better language" in most
> aspects as a programming language (and I can imagine a number of
> scenarios where some of the Ada stuff really get's in the way and that
> is e.g. when I want to write something without the Ada runtime: I can
> write a GNU Pascal procedure and link it into a C program, but can I
> do that with something compiled by GNAT?), whatever -- even agreeing
> Ada is the "better language",
\
Actually, the GCC people have done a really good job of supporting 
multi-language programming. Only the VMS people supported multiple 
high-level languages as well.