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From: "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@__n_o_s_p_a_m__abyss2.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: An Ada advocacy method
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On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 13:31:06 +0000, Marin David Condic wrote:

> Well, I don't know everything about every software development kit on 
> the planet, but I did use MSVC++ long enough to have seen that it had 
> some really spiffy capabilities. I won't defend its overall quality, but 
> I'd recommend that if someone wanted to build an Ada development kit 
> that they buy MSVC++ and spend some time learning what it can do. I have 

You've never tried to force MSVC to use a different compiler have you?
It's impossible to do cleanly.

Luke.