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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: How many different processors do you use?
Date: 1999/06/10
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In article <7jomhf$l5e$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  muddy_buddy@my-deja.com wrote:
> In article <7jn75i$5d5$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
>   Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
> > In article <7jmr4i$1c1$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,

> I doubt that Reagen was ever capable of understanding the
> differences between programing languages.  My point, was the
> general policy was responsible for the lack of government
> funded efforts.

But once again, this is totally irrelevant. In fact the
government spent LOADS of money on Ada, including sums well
into the tens of millions of dollars on generating a free
Ada compiler (ALSN). Unfortunately this compiler was not
sufficiently useful to be widely used.



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