Re: alternatives

["Pat Rogers" <progers@classwide.com>]

"John McCabe" <john.mccabe@emrad.ns.com> wrote in message
news:3c91bdb8.1496401@news.demon.co.uk...
> On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 14:03:50 +0000 (UTC), Peter Hermann
> <ica2ph@iris16.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
>
> >says:
> >"... the Department of Defense, which was seeking alternatives to Ada ..."
> >
> >Who is   The DoD  , please ?
>
> Do you mean who is The Department of Defense?

I think Peter is falling victim to the same malady I suffer on newsgroups:
excessive subtlety.

I suspect he means that it is meaningless to say the DoD was seeking something,
for various reasons:

1) The DoD does not act as a whole, with a consistent approach or goal (This
will surprise no one familiar with Ada)

2) Only people can seek something (in this context)

3) Some people in the DoD like and use Ada cost-effectively

4) Without identifying who, in one form or another,  is "seeking alternatives to
Ada", the author is not saying anything worth the time to read.

That's how I took it, anyway, and I agreed.

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