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> The key here is to get *something* built that would be accepted by the 
> vendors as the library of convention for Ada. It has to ship with their 
> products - possibly with a disclaimer: "This is version X.Y of the 
> Conventional Ada Library. It is unsupported by us. Go see the Ada 
> Library Consortium's web page for the latest versions, bug reporting, 
> etc." Most people would use what they got out of the box and accept it 
> as being "Ada" That might start Ada down the path of at least catching 
> up to Java and C++. Ultimately, it needs to do more, but it has to at 

Yes.  Look at all the COTS stuff being wedged into
military programs not because it fits well, but
merely because it exists.