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From: Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: What is wrong with Ada?
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Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:25:45 +1000
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>>>>> "martinbishop" == martinbishop  <jedibebop@gmail.com> writes:

    martinbishop> I've never been scared of "non mainstream"
    martinbishop> languages, but I was wondering, what is wrong with
    martinbishop> Ada?  Why don't more people use it?  What do most
    martinbishop> people think of it?  To me, it seems like a nice,
    martinbishop> concise, and safe language, but I haven't used it
    martinbishop> yet.

This was discussed recently.

See http://groups.google.com.au/group/comp.lang.ada/browse_thread/thread/21960280f1d61e84/4f32ef40e541eff7
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Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>