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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: More Ganssle on Ada
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 09:19:15 -0500
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Patrick <patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org> writes:

> ...is Ada only for life critical applications? Adacore seems to think
> so.

Why do you say so?  AdaCore builds all sorts of non-safety-critical
stuff in Ada.  Compilers come to mind.

So do some of our customers.

- Bob