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From: faust <urfaust@optushome.com.au>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: C++ ,
 ADA and the Joint Strike Fighter ( was Re: Anybody in USusing ADA ?)
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 08:27:43 -0800
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Date: 2003-01-09T08:27:43-08:00
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 "Marin David Condic" <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org> ,  emitted these
fragments:

> > have the JSF actually work and help to kill innocent civilians in
> > their thousands.

>the JSF (which I work on) 

Nice to see that you are so disinterested.

>has absolutely *no* design features in it to
>attack civilians and that the military in general maintains (and generally

Protecting a bomber on its way to bomb the local wedding party counts
as "helping to kill innocent civilians"

This is one major reason that Ada gave everyone a bad taste in the
mouth.

-- 
natsu-gusa ya     / tsuwamono-domo-ga / yume no ato
summer grasses / strong ones          / dreams site
 
Summer grasses,
All that remains
Of soldier's dreams
(Basho trans. Stryk)