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On 10/29/2014 01:43 PM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> 
> No taxation without representation. The blame is put squarely on those who
> make these decisions. Refusing to work is an extraordinary measure outside
> normal developing process to be used only in the cases of clearly criminal
> orders. IMO it is more unethical than using an inferior language. E.g. if
> programmers refused to work on a new aircraft there would be none and the
> country could become defenseless. Remember how Ada was snubbed because used
> by DoD? Was that ethical?

It appears we disagree, then. If no one would work on a new aircraft unless it
was done in Ada, then I suspect it would be done in Ada. That seems like a
desirable outcome to me.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"This school was here before you came,
and it'll be here before you go."
Horse Feathers
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