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From: snarflemike@yahoo.com (Mike Silva)
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Subject: Re: Ariane5 FAQ
Date: 25 Jul 2003 10:39:14 -0700
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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message news:<7u9Ua.13412$634.10307@nwrdny03.gnilink.net>...
> Alexander Kopilovitch wrote:
>  > As for political correctness... well, I have nothing against it,
>  > but only if it does not obscure essential things.
> 
> The entire point of your FAQ is political correctness.
> In this order, you are urgently campaigning that Ada,
> Ada programmers, and technical people have absolutely
> no blame in the Ariane 5 crash. In order to do this
> you make unsubstantiated claims which are designed to
> appeal to the egos and biases of Ada programmers and
> other technical people.

Well, Alexander certainly appealed to my ego and biases, and for that I thank him!