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From: faust <urfaust@optushome.com.au>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Anybody in US using ADA ?
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 16:59:50 -0800
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 "Marin David Condic" <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org> ,  emitted these
fragments:

>I mean provide big libraries so
>that a developer basically spends time patching together existing code
>rather than developing it all from bottom-dead-center.


But Ruby, Python and Perl provide extensive _cross-platform_
libraries.

How is Ada going to compete with that ?

-- 
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All that remains
Of soldier's dreams
(Basho trans. Stryk)