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On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 8:39:06 PM UTC-5, Peter Chapin wrote:
> On 2014-06-11 15:52, Luke A. Guest wrote:
>
> > If there was an Ada compiler for ios, would you use it?
> 
> Probably not.

Specifically why not use Ada?  What portion(s) of Ada are detrimental to success on iOS?  Memory management?  Lack of clear mapping of the more-unusual portions of Objective-C runtime feature-set (e.g., reflection; Grand Central Dispatch) onto Ada?