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From: aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk (Aidan Skinner)
Subject: Re: Project: FreeOS
Date: 2000/01/18
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On Mon, 17 Jan 2000 15:36:14 -0800, Brian Rogoff
<bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> wrote: 

>low-level stuff well. I agree with Jan though that Ada is fairly low
>level, especially when compared with Smalltalk, Common Lisp, Prolog,
>Python, Icon, etc. 

To an extent this can be solved with the judicious use of libraries,
although I'm not entirley sure how one would implement prolog-esque
features in a "nice" manner.

- Aidan
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