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From: William Dale <william.dale.jr+adanews@lmco.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada and the NMD
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 09:34:13 -0700
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It seems the Trolls are out to drag politics into a language news group.
Go away ... to late.

Al Christians wrote:
> 
> For all the commiseration about insufficient interest at large in
> Ada, there is a development looming that could possibly remedy that
> in a single stroke: the National Missile Defense plan.  This is a
> system so preposterous that one can only think about doing it with
> absurdly great software.  Is Ada the way to go for such a grandiose
> project?  Is anyone lobbying to make Ada the "Official Programming
> Language of the NMD"?  Why or why not?   If the software for this
> project gets done primarily in non-Ada, then we can suspect that
> Ada's time has passed.  If it gets done primarily in Ada, then the
> anemia of interest in Ada will be cured instanter by a gross
> infusion of pelf.
> 
> Al