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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: the Ada mandate,
 and why it collapsed and died (was): 64 bit  addressing and OOP
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In article <9fa75d42.0304230515.48064263@posting.google.com>, softeng3456@netscape.net (soft-eng) writes:
> Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) wrote in message news:<d3xFAUvBYizb@eisner.encompasserve.org>...
>> In article <9fa75d42.0304221126.7112b7d5@posting.google.com>, softeng3456@netscape.net (soft-eng) writes:

>> > (C and later C++ style of type-safety turned out to
>> > be good enough for real-world projects.)
>> 
>> Like Windows ?

> You don't like Windows, so you must be using
> what?  Unix and X-Windows?  Written/extended/in Ada?

At this instant I am using VMS, which thankfully written mostly before
the current C-mania started.  Even when they use C on Alpha and Itanium
now, those who develop VMS tend to use the safer techniques they learned
with Bliss in place of the null-terminated strings and other garbage that
is encouraged by C.