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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Ada and the NMD
Date: 6 Sep 2001 05:27:52 -0500
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In article <3B970152.4AC6C6E3@PublicPropertySoftware.com>, Al Christians <alc@PublicPropertySoftware.com> writes:
> For all the commiseration about insufficient interest at large in
> Ada, there is a development looming that could possibly remedy that
> in a single stroke: the National Missile Defense plan.  This is a
> system so preposterous that one can only think about doing it with
> absurdly great software.  Is Ada the way to go for such a grandiose
> project?  Is anyone lobbying to make Ada the "Official Programming 
> Language of the NMD"?  Why or why not?

So as not to be associated with the failure of an impossible mission ?