From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Perhaps there _is_ a conspiracy against Ada
Date: 1997/04/17
Date: 1997-04-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.861321620@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5j1aed$1v8i@newssvr01-int.news.prodigy.com
Matthew said
<<Yes, it is. However, it happens to be true. Ada isn't right for all
jobs, and shouldn't be treated as if it is.>>
True, but in practice a lot of decisions to use some other language than
Ada are based on no good technical reasoning at all, just prejudice and
familiarity.
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1997-04-15 0:00 ` Perhaps there _is_ a conspiracy against Ada Matthew Givens
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1997-04-16 0:00 ` Matthew Givens
1997-04-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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1997-04-16 0:00 ` Matthew Givens
1997-04-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
[not found] ` <3353E636.69A2@lmtas.lmco.com>
1997-04-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-20 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1997-04-21 0:00 ` Kevin Cline
1997-04-22 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-04-24 0:00 ` Kevin Cline
1997-04-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-29 0:00 ` Kevin Cline
1997-04-22 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1997-04-24 0:00 tmoran
1997-04-25 0:00 ` Kevin Cline
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1997-04-13 0:00 Larry Kilgallen
[not found] ` <01bc49ed$880f1d60$43fa82c1@xhv46.dial.pipex.com>
1997-04-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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1997-04-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-24 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
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