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		wwwwwwwwww on Aug 31, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Boeing Flies on 99% Ada because choosing a language for a commercial project is rarely about safety or effectiveness - it's about language popularity, availability of libraries, and replaceability of the programmers.

pjmlp on Sept 1, 2014 [–]

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