How the press can affect Ada

[world!srctran@uunet.uu.net (Gregory Aharonian)]

    A while ago, I posted a kudo on comp.lang.ada to LtGeneral Gary Stemley,
for repeatedly mentioning Ada in a success story in Computerworld magazine.
It's guys like this who should be in charge of Ada policy, who appreciate
the need to plug for it whereever possible.

   In any event, somehow the editors at ComputerWorld saw a copy of my
kudo, since the only place I posted it was on comp.lang.ada.  For some
reason, they published my kudo in the Letters to the Editor column in the
April 19, 1993 issue of Computerworld, page 32.  (Just think, the entire
U.S. MIS community thinks I am a cheerleader for Ada policy).

    So when I say that the media is willing to give exposure to Ada if
you contact them, I know of what I speak, especially when the editors
here had to find my kudo to publish it.  Given this willingness to
mention things, the fact that so little appears in the non-Mandated press
about Ada is just one more measure of the apathy and incompetence of
whoever is in charge of making sure that Ada and the Mandate are viable.

Greg Aharonian
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