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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: usb port
Date: 2 Aug 2004 10:48:15 -0500
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In article <mailman.57.1091457735.416.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>, Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr> writes:
>> > The general answer is: the same as in C.  
>> 
>> Why do we always assume the poster knows how to do it in C?
> 
> Well, the chance that the operating system is itself written in C,
> and uses C for it's base API, is pretty high.

It seems to me that Ada people should be the _last_ to cater to the
majority and snub the minority.

I regularly eschew vendors who "assume C".