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On 04/17/2014 03:35 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>
> If you think I am wrong, then, while telling me I am wrong :-), please
> also tell me why Ada isn't in much more wider use than it currently is.

Let's see, there's an Ada compiler that uses ANSI C as its intermediate 
language. So there's an Ada compiler that targets every platform that C targets. 
Clearly the number of targets that a language has a compiler for is not the issue.

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Jeff Carter
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merely said I didn't see that old horse
that used to be tethered outside here."
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