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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Paige's How To Get An Automatic Ada Waiver memo
Date: 3 Nov 1994 18:10:38 -0500
Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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Date: 1994-11-03T18:10:38-05:00
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Programs written in Dbase are just that, programs written in Dbase. The
fact that the Dbase compiler is COTS is totally irrelevant. If someone
let's someone less get away with this, the party of the first part has
been bamboozled by the part of the second part. 

Now of course if you can make an appropriate argument that the program
you are writing is more appropriately written in Dbase than Ada, fine,
but that's the argument that has to be made, the COTS issue is irrelevant.