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From: "Mark Thornton" <m.p.thornton@ntlworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada versus language-X and "getting real work done" (was): 64 bit
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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 20:18:24 -0000
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"Kent Paul Dolan" <xanthian@well.com> wrote in message
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>
> If the Ada mandate hadn't been dropped, the rebellion would
> have to have been treated as what it was.  The DoD chose to
> cave rather than apply military standards to a military
> discipline problem.

Surely most of the programmers and management involved would have been
civilians with whom a military approach to discipline would have been
ineffective.

Mark Thornton