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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: Writing Linux Kernel Modules in Ada
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 20:16:15 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2016-10-29, Hadrien G. <knights_of_ni@gmx.com> wrote:
>
> I would say that Rust is a relatively recent newcomer in the large 
> family of languages that try to remain C-like while addressing the main 
> flaws of C and C++, and bringing a couple of nice functional features 
> from ML along the way, whereas Ada has a more original take on language 
> design.
>

In addition, Ada has the advantage of actually being readable.

Simon.

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