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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Perhaps there _is_ a conspiracy against Ada
Date: 1997/04/17
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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.