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Date: Tue, 03 Aug 93 09:28:16 -0400
From: munck@STARS.Reston.Paramax.COM
Subject: Re: Ada is not a failure.
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In INFO-ADA Digest V93 #496, pipex!sunic!news.lth.se!dag@uunet.uu.net
  (Dag Bruck) said:

>>... C/C++ has gained entrenchment as a market "standard", and
>>actually serves as an impediment to progress through monopolization.  
>
>Isn't that what the "Ada mandate" has been criticised for...?

Oh, no.  Most of the criticism of Ada seen in this forum are due
to the fact that the Ada Mandate has somehow kept Greg Aharonian
from getting a steady job.  

Bob Munck