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From: "Jerry Coffin" <jcoffin@taeus.com>
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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
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Robert A Duff wrote:

[ ... ]

> Sorry, I don't know how to say it politely, but this argument (on
> both sides) is patently ridiculous.  For one thing, neither C++ nor
> Ada 95 existed at the time the Arpanet was created.

Previously noted.

> For another thing, Ada has never been "a language the DoD considered
> its own" -- the design has always been entirely open.
> For goodness sakes, they even chose a
> foreigner (Jean Ichbiah, who is French) to do the original 1983
> language design!

Hmm...so your position is that the DoD _couldn't_ feel posessive about
it because at least part of that would be irrational?

Perhaps we should start over from the beginning. Hi. Welcome to our
planet. We like to call it "earth." We call ourselves "people".
Rationality in individuals is rare and in large groups, nonexistent.
Unfortunately, even though you seem to speak (or at least type) English
just like the TV shows said you would, your thinking is appearently so
different from ours that we'll probably never be able to truly
communicate. :-)

--
    Later,
    Jerry.

The universe is a figment of its own imagination.