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From: Alan E & Carmel J Brain <aebrain@dynamite.com.au>
Subject: Re: How big is an int? (was: Yet another stupid language war (was:
 ... the only languages you need!!))
Date: 1997/11/21
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Date: 1997-11-21T00:00:00+00:00
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Craig Franck wrote:

> It is this elitest mentality that may put some people off; however,
> claming you are persecuted and shunned solely because of your choice
> of programming language is pushing it.

I didn't mean me personally.. people shun me because of bad breath, not
because I program in Ada. (I 'spose I better include a :-) for the
humour impaired ).

No, I meant things like:

> I know the STC is dropping Ada tracks, but I was unpleasantly
> surprised to receive a call from a track coordinator yesterday telling
> me that a proposed repeat of my Tri-Ada'97 panel titled "Software
> Engineering Plan Reviews -- Better or Worse for Ada than the Mandate?"
> was requested to shorten the title to just "Software Engineering Plan
> Reviews."
...
> Then I asked if all submissions with "Ada" in the title were getting
> similar requests.  The track coordinator thought so.

Also:
(after the decision by Mr Page to no longer mandate Ada for the DoD)
> I was in the
> >office of the CEO of one well-known DoD
> >contractor recently who said, "Get with it
> >Richard. Ada is dead, dead, dead."  His
> >company has pulled out of the Ada
> >marketplace entirely.

Also:

>One Academic institution (not mine, thank God!)has bowed to student >demand, and CS1 is now going to be taught using C++ instead of Ada as a >first language.

Little things like that. 

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