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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada,misc.misc
Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate,
 and why it collapsed and died)
Date: 24 Apr 2003 15:10:09 -0500
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In article <9fa75d42.0304240950.45114a39@posting.google.com>, softeng3456@netscape.net (soft-eng) writes:
> Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@crs4.it> wrote in message news:<3EA7E0E3.8020407@crs4.it>...
>> [ FUT comp.lang.ada ]
>> 
>> soft-eng wrote:
>> 
>> > But if you
>> > had to develop device drivers for a living, and if
>> > the language was truly your choice, would you chose Ada as
>> > the language?
>> 
>> Yes.
>> 
> 
> Hmmm.  Very interesting.
> 
> But I am sure you folks couldn't come up with some similar
> pronouncements for AI as well.  How many people out there who have
> years and years of Artificial Intelligence experience and
> who really think Ada is the best language for this purpose?

Hopefully there is nobody who thinks that Ada is automatically the
best language for _everything_.  But to find people doing AI in Ada
(if any) please post directly to comp.lang.ada, without the crossposts.