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Date: 9 Jun 93 14:27:12 GMT
From: concert!uvaarpa!software.org!smithd@gatech.edu  (Doug Smith)
Subject: Re: How to Make Ada more widely used?
Message-ID: <1993Jun9.142712.28839@software.org>
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In article <dewar.739543517@schonberg> dewar@schonberg.NYU.EDU (Robert Dewar) w
rites:
>Greg Aharonian uses an interesting form of argument. His thesis is that
>the mandate is responsible for the lack of libraries etc. He never gives
>any hard data to support such a viewpoint (indeed it's hard to imagine how
>any such data could be obtained). So apparently he feels that an acceptable]
>substitute is simply to repeat the unsubstantiated claim seven times a day.


"...proof by repeated assertion."

       quoted from Peopleware.
       
Doug
smithd@software.org