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From: Robert Spooner <rls19@psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping
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Wes Groleau wrote:

> 
> Ah, but a language that is ten times more productive
> still can't compete with one that has a hundred times
> as many developers.
> 
Let's see... 100*programmers => 100^2*more lines of communication - 
you're right, the project with the huge number of programmers will be 
finished much later, if at all. :)

Bob
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