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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate,
 and why it collapsed and died)
Date: 13 May 2003 05:36:56 -0500
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In article <slrnbc0pdt.1o8.mbkennelSPAMBEGONE@lyapunov.ucsd.edu>, Dr Chaos <mbkennelSPAMBEGONE@NOSPAMyahoo.com> writes:
> On 12 May 2003 06:43:34 -0700, soft-eng <softeng3456@netscape.net> wrote:
>> Dr Chaos <mbkennelSPAMBEGONE@NOSPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message news:<slrnbbof6r.6ep.mbkennelSPAMBEGONE@lyapunov.ucsd.edu>...
>> 
>>> Here is one key example.  VMS didn't have a shell where actual
>>> ordinary users could write programs which functioned like the built in
>>> ones.  It was "RUN MY_USER_PROGRAM" versus the huge hairball of "SHOW
>>> THIS/THAT" or "SET THIS TO THAT".

It is too bad you missed the SET COMMAND documentation, but that is not
really our fault, is it.