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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: The future of Ada
Date: 1999/03/10
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In article <1999Mar10.123912.1@eisner>,
  Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam wrote:

> The metric in computing, as in many other endeavors, should be
> how successful you are at doing it your way, rather than how many
> other people are doing it your way.

Bingo. Suppose C++ is the industry standard (a debatable point). Ask your
boss if he wants to go for the standard everything and have an "average"
environment, or does he want to try to be *better* than the competition?

T.E.D.

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