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Date: 1 Oct 92 04:11:12 GMT
From: seas.gwu.edu!mfeldman@uunet.uu.net  (Michael Feldman)
Subject: Re: Ada's (in)visibility in the engineering community
Message-ID: <1992Oct1.041112.10652@seas.gwu.edu>
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In article <1992Sep30.131146.2225@lth.se> dag@control.lth.se (Dag Bruck) writes
:
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>
>In my experience, the C++ community is not very interested in Ada,
>which probably is a pity.  I don't really understand why some people
>in the Ada community spend so much time comparing with C++; isn't Ada
>good enough in itself?  Does it really matter much who's influenced
>who?  I think it smells of envy because C++ is a greater commercial
>success.
>
Amen to that! Let's quit the quibbling, get back to business,
recognize Ada for what it is, and work hard to make it a commercial
success. (Vendors: are you listening out there?)

Mike Feldman