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Date: 28 Jul 93 15:12:01 GMT
From: sampson@cod.nosc.mil  (Charles H. Sampson)
Subject: Re: Gauntlet gathering rust and dust
Message-ID: <1993Jul28.151201.2028@nosc.mil>
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In article <SRCTRAN.93Jul27201723@world.std.com> srctran@world.std.com (Gregory
 Aharonian) writes:
>
>One point though, the larger the amount of classified Ada use, the
>lower the non-defense programming language gross domestic product for
>Ada will be (even lower than my current guess of 2%).  So the more Ada
>is actually used inside the DoD, the worse will be its track record
>outside the Mandated world.  So this line of arguing actually hurts Ada.

     Excuse me?  This is an argument that I haven't seen before and I don't
follow it.  Could you explain how the classified use of Ada will hurt Ada
for non-defense projects?

				Charlie