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Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request
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On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:10:34 +0800, Adrian Hoe <AdrianHoe@nowhere.com>  
wrote:

> But, what did GNAT, Aonix, Intermetrics, Greenhill and other Ada  
> compiler vendors do? They did nothing to promote Ada.

What a crock of horse-hockey!

And no, I'm not going to list 15 years of Ada advocacy efforts on the part  
of the vendors.

- Ed