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From: Lyle McKennot <spam@spam.menot.com>
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"John R. Strohm" <strohm@airmail.net> wrote:

>You are doomed to disappointment.

How about the  1980 ACM Turing Award lecture "The Emperor's Old
Clothes" ?

After all, it was that scathing attack by Hoare that made a lot of
people in the academic community abandon Ada.

It is still available at :

http://lambda.cs.yale.edu/cs422/doc/hoare.pdf