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Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Ada for Plan9 yet?
Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 15:16:03 +0000
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> > However I would like to know in advance if it supports the Ada
> > language, ...
>
> so we need an asteroid to squish a bug?

What bug?

<<The OS support manager  was a big C fan and dead set against Ada.
He showed lots of charts that indicated that when repairing STARS (bug
reports) on the C projects turnaround was twice as fast as with
assembler, and the cost per report was a third less.  "What about the
Ada projects?" he was asked by the
division manager.

"Oh, we don't know what it costs to fix bugs in the Ada systems.
There
haven't been any reported."  To this day, I don't think he understands
why everyone present started laughing uncontrollably.>> (R.I.Eachus,
on comp.lang.ada)

Now less jestly, I recommend updating your perception of Ada:

  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/myths.html

And please note I AM NOT PUSHING ADA ON ANYONE, C was my first true
love, so please no language flames.

--Marius