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From: Stephen Leake <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate,
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snarflemike@yahoo.com (Mike Silva) writes:

> OK, let's just all get ourselves on record.  I'll start:
> 
> I, an Ada programmer of sound mind and body, acknowledge that there
> are hard problems that Ada does not catch.  I further acknowledge that
> Ada will not catch each and every error which I am capable of
> committing.  Lastly, I acknowledge that there are many problem types
> which Ada is much more competent than I am to catch, and that by using
> Ada I subject myself to shorter hours at work and more domestic
> tranquility at home, and further that I rarely get to have the best
> debugging war stories in the company lunchroom.

Me too :).

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-- Stephe