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From: xanthian@well.com (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada,misc.misc
Subject: Re: Ada versus language-X and "getting real work done" (was): 64 bit
 addressing and OOP
Date: 26 Feb 2003 23:09:01 -0800
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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote:
> Kent Paul Dolan wrote:

>> The DoD had, and has to this day, a situation where
>> battlefield computers programmed in different languages
>> couldn't talk to one another.

> Programming language choice is so far from a factor in
> interoperability and communications that your comments
> are laughable.

Interesting that your experience should be so in contrast
to the ten years of research and effort DoD put into studying
that very issue in their own shops using their own code
and repeated system interoperation experiences to the
contrary, in the work leading up to the first Ada language
standard.

I'm sure your correction to history will be of great value
to those who participated in it.

xanthian.

I can see them snorting coffee out their noses even as I
type this.  A little humor to lighten up the day is always
valuable.