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From: Petra Lynn Hofman <petrahof@chicagonet.net>
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I can't believe this thread!!!!!  I was away for a week and it has gone
on and on.  And there is much interesting and useful information.  What
seems clear to me is that Ada95 is not going to be going places without
a large corporate sponsor who has programmers trained in Ada at the
college level.  I've checked all over the Chicago area and no college or
tech school offers classes in Ada programming.  Therefore, my
presumption is that there is insufficient demand.  It also seems clear
to me that Microsoft is running not only hardware but software
decisions, too.  I think this becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy.