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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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On 11/05/2010 04:09 PM, Robert A Duff wrote:
> Jeffrey Carter<spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>  writes:
>
>> ...Ada is a S/W-engineering
>> language, and most developers are not S/W engineers.
>
> Well, maybe, but how many people will be attracted to
> Ada by sneering at them for being less than true
> engineers?

I don't want to attract coders to Ada.

> P.S. My grandfather was a "true" engineer.  He drove a train.
> He worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad.  ;-)

Cool. Do you try to buy that when you play Monopoly?

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Run away! Run away!"
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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