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Date: 1 Sep 93 12:42:20 GMT
From: cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!firth@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Robert Fi
rth)
Subject: Re: Why Ada has seven years to thrive or die
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In article <SRCTRAN.93Aug31203457@world.std.com> srctran@world.std.com (Gregory
 Aharonian) writes:

>If this was ten years ago, I would
>agree, don't panic as the race has just begun.  But this is ten years into
>these races, and Ada is nowhere to be found.

Sigh. A fair point, and, I must concede, an entirely valid one.  If, indeed,
Ada's main stakeholders continue to support the language in the future as
abysmally as they have in the past, extinction is assured.