From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1ea92c0e5255811d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-09 15:48:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!207.217.77.102!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!harp.news.atl.earthlink.net!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Way OT: Adam Smith and Software Markets Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 18:48:08 -0500 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: References: <1047048700.261146@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3E6B8804.35FBC08F@adaworks.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.56.bf.d5 X-Server-Date: 9 Mar 2003 23:48:15 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:35103 Date: 2003-03-09T23:48:15+00:00 List-Id: Aren't you really just an artificial intelligence program written for someone's doctoral dissertation? The "Real" Marin Condic -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g "Going cold turkey isn't as delicious as it sounds." -- H. Simpson ====================================================================== Richard Riehle wrote in message news:3E6B8804.35FBC08F@adaworks.com... > > No, Tom. Ada was a plot by the CIA embedded within the DoD to persuade > the Russians, Chinese, and others that they should devote intellectual energy > > to this language so they could understand U.S. military software, even as we > actually developed that software in other, more secret languages which we > never publicized to the public at large. It was a diversionary tactic > intended > to bring down the Soviet Union, confuse the French, annoy the British, > amuse the Americans, and amaze the inhabitants of Western Africa. The > entire plan backfired and it turned out that military software developers > were using it successfully. This called for yet another plan, promoted by > a different super-secret agency: abrogate the mandate to deceive the > world into believing we were going yet another direction. > > Even comp.lang.ada is a conspiracy by nefarious people with unlikely, > and obviously fictitious names such as Dewar, Hermann, Brosgol, > Riehle, Condic, Lief, Randol, etc. If one examines these names carefully, > > along with others often found in this forum, and arranges them in the > correct order, it will be discovered that each of these names, when > mulitplied by the ASCII values of the word Moran, is a secret code > devised by interplanetary visitors who intend to conquer the planet. > > Now, I must send this message quickly because those Alien creatures > have learned that I have discovered their secret and are about to beam > me into the spaceship hovering nearby over my flower garden. > > Goodbye all. > > Richard Riehle > > >