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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Standard Library Interest?
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"Stephen Leake" <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov> wrote in message
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> Right. A "critical mass" of users of the library is essential; that
> means people find it useful, and will do word-of-mouth advertising.

I think the key phrase here is "people find it" :-)

You'd ba amazed who many Ada users aren't even aware of things
like ASIS!