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From: sdl@linus.UUCP (Steven D. Litvintchouk)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: case sensitivity
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Date: 22 Feb 89 22:28:55 GMT
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In article <8902201944.AA05264@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> pse_papay@GTEWD.ARPA writes:

> One last comment: Its too bad that many people feel "forced" to use
> Ada, as Mr. Anderson's company is.  Why is it that when a group of
> C, or FORTRAN, or Pascal programmers get together (at a conference,
> workshop, et al), they're there because they _want_ to, while when a
> group of Ada programmers get together, many are there because they
> _have_ to?

Do you believe that *your* company would routinely use Ada by choice, if
the DoD didn't require/force government contractors to use Ada?


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