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From: je@bton.ac.uk (John English)
Subject: Re: Is Ada likely to survive ?
Date: 1997/08/11
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Date: 1997-08-11T00:00:00+00:00
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Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96 (condicma@PWFL.COM) wrote:
:     [...] There's a non-trivial
:     number of people who keep alive Shakespearian English and some of
:     them get paid pretty darned well for doing so (Ask Charleton
:     Heston to come speak some Shakespear at you and see what the bill
:     is likely to be :-)

Charlton Heston doing Shakespeare? Ugh! That's like asking a
Cobol programmer to write Ada, or Neil Diamond to sing Gilbert
and Sullivan... :-)

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