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Ed Falis:

> Which does not contradict my statement in the context of the times.
> Despite the superficially "fair" wording of the memo, it was almost
> universally interpreted as DoD walking away from Ada.  One of my
> colleagues was at a meeting recently where some yoyo got up and said
> "Thank God we got rid of Ada"!  Probably because that was the "cool"
> view among those who felt oppressed by the mandate (largely in terms of
> their short-term profit margins).

I'm tempted to say that the dislike is symmetric: many Ada users could say 
"Thank God we got rid of the DoD"!
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