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On 10-Jul-14 13:49, Marius Amado-Alves wrote:
>> My current number one example: implementing OpenSSL in Ada is exactly
>> the kind of thing Ada would be good at. Unfortunately, it's also not
>> practical.
>
> On the contrary, it would be very practical to have AWS working well with SSL...
> I was never able to do that on Windows.
> AWS is a great lib, but horrible at installing.
>

Really?
I did have a bit of trouble installing it, yes -- but that was *REALLY* 
minor compared to the inability to get any DB-binding to correctly 
compile [and link].