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From: ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ada in Embedded Systems Programming.
Date: 28 Oct 1994 14:24:31 GMT
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In article <1994Oct27.080032.1@corning.com>, whiting_ms@corning.com
(whiting_ms@corning.com (Matt Whiting)) writes: 

|> I'm beginning to think that the DOD mandate is very counter productive as a lot
|> of people seem to get their jollies from telling Uncle Sam to take a hike.
|> Maybe if DOD dropped the mandate they would actually ENCOURAGE the commercial
|> use of Ada (many commercial companies want no association at all with the
|> military) and maybe even the DOD use.

Corporations whose decisions are made with this level of maturity are
bound to be short-lived anyway, so it shouldn't matter much to anybody
which programming language they use.

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Norman H. Cohen    ncohen@watson.ibm.com