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From: Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>
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> Some things I miss in Ada that are available in ML: Higher order
> functions, pattern matching and tuples.

In Ada you have, respectively: access-to-subprograms types, free pattern 
matching libraries e.g. GNAT.Spitbol, free database libraries e.g. Pgsql 
or Mneson.