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In article <9r3sen$dnj$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says...
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>What always confounds me about it is that even when you can make a strong
>business case for using Ada based on higher reliability, lower development
>and maintenance cost, etc., and actually back it up with data, you still
>lose because management will end up asking their techies about it (fair
>enough) and the techies don't like Ada or don't want the headache of

Actually, I've seen more cases where the grunts like it, but management doesn't
for whatever reason (I quit trying to analyze their reasoning process when I
discovered it has little to do with reasoning).

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