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From: Tom Moran <tmoran@bix.com>
Subject: Re: Any research putting c above ada?
Date: 1997/04/29
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> If no such language already exists, the DoD will
> launch a huge project to create one and put you in charge of it.
> 
> Under such circumstances, wouldn't you do whatever it took to be sure
> that no existing language could meet the requirements?  If not, you
> would probably not have reached a level in the hierarchy that would
> have allowed you to influence the decision in the first place.
  That's a rather large set of assumptions about DOD decision maker's. 
Do you have any evidence, or merely the assumption they uniformly act as
you would?