Re: Way OT: Adam Smith and Software Markets

[Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com>]

tmoran@acm.org wrote:

> > free-willed and thinking individuals who take in avalilabale
> > information and then make up their own minds
>   Clearly Ada is part of the communist plot to take over the world from
> that kind of totally knowledgeable, always logical, never make a mistake,
> people - who, among other things, can program in C++ without error.

No, Tom.   Ada was a plot by the CIA embedded within the DoD to persuade
the Russians, Chinese, and others that they should devote intellectual energy

to this language so they could understand U.S. military software, even as we
actually developed that software in other, more secret languages which we
never publicized to the public at large.  It was a diversionary tactic
intended
to bring down the Soviet Union, confuse the French,  annoy the British,
amuse the Americans, and amaze the inhabitants of Western Africa.   The
entire plan backfired and it turned out that military software developers
were using it successfully.  This called for yet another plan, promoted by
a different super-secret agency:  abrogate the mandate to deceive the
world into believing we were going yet another direction.

Even comp.lang.ada is a conspiracy by nefarious people with unlikely,
and obviously fictitious names such as Dewar, Hermann, Brosgol,
Riehle, Condic, Lief,  Randol,  etc.   If one examines these names carefully,

along with others often found in this forum, and arranges them in the
correct order, it will be discovered that each of these names, when
mulitplied by the ASCII values of the word Moran, is a secret code
devised by interplanetary visitors who intend to conquer the planet.

Now, I must send this message quickly because those Alien creatures
have learned that I have discovered their secret and are about to beam
me into the spaceship hovering nearby over my flower garden.

Goodbye all.

Richard Riehle