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From: jpdres10@usl-pc.UUCP (Green Eric Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Jerry Pournelle and Stupidity
Message-ID: <358@usl-pc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Nov-87 13:01:55 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 17 13:01:55 1987
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In message <7863@ism780c.UUCP>, tim@ism780c.UUCP says:
>mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) writes:
>< And further down the column you can find his gem of a comment that of
>< all the major programming languages, only Modula-2 has support for
>          ^^^^^
>< mulitprocessing built into its structure.  I wonder what all the
>< people who designed Ada thought about that one.
>
>Perhaps he doesn't consider Ada to be a *major* programming language?

Or maybe he just has trouble running Ada on his ancient boat-anchor
6mhz Z-80 CP/M machine :-).

(actually, he probably has a problem running Ada on ANY current
low-price microcomputer... yeah, there's a couple of compilers that do
exist, but either incomplete and slow, or so expensive that only the
Department of Defense can afford them).

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