From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!decuac!grebyn!ted From: ted@grebyn.com (Ted Holden) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Socioeconomics, Ada, C++ Message-ID: <1991May19.024028.7421@grebyn.com> Date: 19 May 91 02:40:28 GMT References: In article <1991May18.061407.25436@milton.u.washington.edu* reeses@milton.u.washington.edu (Feltch Master) writes: *In article <1991May18.022831.20653@grebyn.com* ted@grebyn.com (Ted Holden) writes: **see the entire mainstream of American computer science using C++, and **DOD off in left field in a little toilet-bowl of its own making, paying **ten times the going rate and taking ten times the time for everything **they ever do; they'll get no help other than from small-potatoes **organizations such as Janus and/or Meridian etc. etc. And all of this * ^^^^^^^^^ * Yeah, like that small- * potatoes group of people * who call themselves the * European Economic Community... I hate to have to point out anything so obvious... Perhaps in automobiles, and various other areas of life Europe is other than small-time, but computer science..... I'm afraid you've hit the nail straight on the head. Think of it this way: European "computer science" gave us Ada. Enough said. **Ted Holden **HTE