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From: kevin  cline <kevin.cline@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Choosing a new language
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On Dec 30 2007, 10:38 pm, George Neuner <gneuner2/@/comcast.net>
wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:07:12 -0800 (PST), byte8b...@gmail.com wrote:
> >Ada is airline/dod blessed.
>
> Airline blessed maybe.  The DOD revoked its Ada only edict because
> they couldn't find enough Ada programmers.  AFAIK, Ada is still the
> preferred language, but it is not required.

As if there were such a thing as an 'Ada programmer'.  Any decent
programmer
should be productive in Ada long before their security clearance is
approved.
The real problem the DoD has is that defense work is not attractive to
the best and brightest.