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From: mjsilva697@earthlink.net (Mike Silva)
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Subject: Re: alternatives
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Peter Hermann <ica2ph@iris16.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote in message news:<a6qak6$ark$1@news.uni-stuttgart.de>...
> The article "Making Java Real" By Michael Barr
> Embedded Systems Programming, march 2002, page 9
> (02/28/02, 12:24:27 PM EDT)
> http://www.embedded.com/story/OEG20020221S0086
> 
> says:
> "... the Department of Defense, which was seeking alternatives to Ada ..."

This is so brilliant!  Now all those out-of-work e-commerce and web
programmers can start writing safety-critical hard realtime code for
DoD!  Well, maybe with just a -little- training...

Some days I'm just embarrassed at our industry.

Mike