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From: dirk@vana.cs.kuleuven.be. (Dirk Craeynest)
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Subject: Re: More Ganssle on Ada
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 11:27:54 +0000 (UTC)
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Summary: We need also to preach outside of the choir...
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>On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:08:11 -0800, Patrick wrote:
>> Another thing that has been touched on... is Ada only for
>> life critical applications?  [...]  Why NOT build a telephone
>> application in Ada.  [...]  If people believe this crap there
>> will be a whole subset of tinkers and novice programmers that
>> will pass over the language,

Brian Drummond  <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>... but unfortunately, this is the choir ;-)

Hence the need to also preach outside of the choir...

See:
http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/13/130203-fosdem.html
https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/ada/

Dirk
Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be (for Ada-Belgium/-Europe/SIGAda/WG9 mail)