Re: "C" vrs ADA

[roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)]

In article <1573@sol.ARPA> crowl@cs.rochester.edu (Lawrence Crowl) writes:
> The DoD may not be very bright, but they certainly would no have spent
> millions of dollars developing Ada to get a language that offered no
> advantages over Cobol.

	Without passing judgement (good or bad) on anything else Lawrence
said, I find the idea that "just because DoD spent millions of dollars to
do something, it must have gotten its money's worth" to be utterly,
completely, and absolutely hysterical.
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