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Subject: Re: Ada and embedded applications
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From: Jerry van Dijk <jvandyk@attglobal.net>
Date: 06 Jun 2001 19:57:30 +0200
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"Chris Campbell" <chris.danx@ntlworld.com> writes:


> Maybe this posters views where based on the fact that the last time he used Ada
> was in 1983 and it was a Janus compiler (i.e. Ada was relatively new and
> compiler technology less advanced than it is today).

Given that the poster was Jerry Coffin, that sounds very unlikely.

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