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> > know or care.  If a whole kernel, or webserver etc., is written in Ada,
> > it opens up potential exposure to and interest in the language, to
> > a much bigger world of programmers.  And the opportunity to directly
> > compare performance and reliability between the Ada and C versions,
> > seems seductive to me.  Are people afraid of that comparison?
> >
> >>Anders
> 
> Projects like AWS and others are doing their part in this
> direction.

And I can tell you that I'm not afraid of that comparison at this point :)

<plug>
As AWS has matured a lot in recent versions, it is quite stable and if you
compare the speed of the templates or SOAP engine with some equivalent in the
Apache/Java world you'll see that it is quite fast ;)
</plug>

Pascal.


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