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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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Martin Krischik wrote:

[ ... ]

> For marketing people that's the same: Cool is only what makes money -
> but that does not make the world a better place, don't it.

I'd say rather the opposite: a large part of the reason capitalism is
so successful is that there really _is_ a fairly strong correlation
between making money and making the world better -- and no need to
point out the multitudes of exceptions -- I'm aware of them, which is
why I said "fairly strong."

--
    Later,
    Jerry.

The universe is a figment of its own imagination.