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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: (unverified) Ada mandate cancelled (Greg A would be proud)
Date: 1997/03/08
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Organization: New York University
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Date: 1997-03-08T00:00:00+00:00
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The idea of making Ada a preferred technology rather than mandating it
might very well be advantageous even from an Ada advocate's point of view.
Far too often now, Ada is mandated, but in practice someone is acting as
though some other technology is preferred. A genuine policy of preferring
Ada, other things being equal, might well be preferable. For example,
this would mean that hardware supporting Ada should be preferred over
hardware that does not support Ada.