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Subject: Re: How to get Ada to "cross the chasm"?
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On 26/04/2018 00:48, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> "Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net> wrote in message
> news:5e30eddf-5d24-40d5-b1a4-ad3746408bd6@googlegroups.com...
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>> Is Ada a disruptive leap forward?
> 
> I could make a pretty strong case that "disruptive leaps" are destroying
> human society. Not sure I would want to be a part of any such thing.

They rather replace the old society with a new one, usually by 
eliminating the members of the old, sometimes, physically. So a 
disruptive programming language leap is unlikely to happen. However a 
direct wire-to-brain interface could do that in some future.

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