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Wes Groleau wrote:
> Richard Riehle wrote:
>> At this point, Ada ..... must survive .....  the inane criticism of those
>> who have never written a seropus system in the language. 
> And a large subset of that is the inane criticism of those
> who have never written a serious system in any language.

But notice that C, which is so widely derided in the Ada community,
has been used to produce Linux, a stable, portable, efficient, and
high-quality operating system which is maintained by a host of
programmers. Too often, the pro-Ada argument of "you can do it
faster and better" turns into the anti-C bash of "you can't do it at
all", and too many people know better than to buy that.