Re: Free Hawaii trip if you buy my Ada products

[att-out!cbnewsl!willett@rutgers.edu (david.c.willett)]

>From article <EMERY.93Aug18112331@goldfinger.mitre.org>, by emery@goldfinger.m
itre.org (David Emery):
> Here's a question:  Will the absence of C compiler vendors at Tri-Ada
> be evidence of the failure of C?
> 				dave

You forgot a few -- Cobol
		    Fortran
		    SQL
		    Forth
		    etc.
	:^}

More seriously, I think Greg's wrath is directed at the Ada vendor community
for not evangulizing the language beyond its "birth" at DoD.  I think some
annoyance is justified.  I also feel Greg takes matters a bit far in that
he sees "doom for Ada" around every turn (under every rock?...).

Sure, opinions about Ada vary.  An "old-timer" I once worked with had a good 
line about opinions, he used to say 

	"Opinions are like a**holes, everybody's got one, and thinks 
	 only the other guy's stinks!"

I often think of that saying when reading the "political" material I find
in this newsgroup.  It helps me keep perspective.


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Dave Willett          AT&T Federal Systems Advanced Technologies

The biggest mistake you can make is to think 
that you work for someone else.