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On 06/17/2014 05:56 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>
> I think the core question here is: do you want to encourage Ada use by
> more people or do you want Ada to only be used by some ever declining
> elite ?

As I've said before, Ada will never be used willingly by the 98% of of 
developers who aren't software engineers.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Saving keystrokes is the job of the text editor,
not the programming language."
Preben Randhol
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