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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: Ada in Iraq
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> I don't think Ada will gain any popularity if people start with
> signatures like: 60% of the software in the War on Iraq was written in
> Ada. May be in military circles, but not elsewhere.
  But aren't all those planning room laptops shown on TV running Windows?
Also, I understood a lot of the highest tech gear spent the war on a
slow boat from Turkey.