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From: "Alexander E. Kopilovich" <aek@VB1162.spb.edu>
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Date: 2004-06-06T01:50:39+04:00

Bj?rn Persson wrote:

>Do the Chinese even use Ada?
No doubt they do, but you possibly can't find an example - because all
probable uses are either inside a secret military-related project or by
offshore contractor working for some Western company.

>I can imagine several irrational reasons why the Chinese wouldn't like 
>Ada, but if they find its support for Chinese too incomplete, then 
>that's one very rational reason.

Insufficient support for national alphabet never was an obstacle for use of
a programming language (I can assure you that all mainstream programming
languages flourished in Soviet Union and then Russia without any particular
support for Cyrillic). And anyway, Ada's support for national alphabets isn't
weaker than that of C++ (I hope you don't doubt that Chinese use C/C++ -:) .




Alexander Kopilovich                      aek@vib.usr.pu.ru
Saint-Petersburg
Russia