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From: emery@goldfinger.mitre.org (David Emery)
Subject: Re: Is General Kind the harbinger of doom for the Mandate?
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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1993 22:38:26 GMT
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>Obviously most programmers could learn Ada if they wanted to.  

That is NOT clear to me at all.  Most programmers could learn Ada
syntax, but not everyone can learn how to use Ada efficiently in the
context of software engineering.  

To reuse an old analogy of Mark Gerhardt's: "Not everyone can learn
calculus.  Should people who can't comprehend calculus be engineers?"
I'd add "Anyone can learn to draw integral signs, though..."

				dave