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From: Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org (Colin Paul Gloster)
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Richard Riehle wrote in news:3E1EA349.6B97C328@adaworks.com :

"[..]

It can be conjectured that the DoD mandate was, in part responsible             
for the resistance to Ada, but not because it was designed for weapon           
systems. [..]"

How widespread such campaigns were I do not know, but I once was told by
somebody that he and others involved in university (not in America) had
successfully campaigned against Ada being taught. This person told me that
he and his colleagues campaigned against Ada not because of the amount of
money involved, but because they were against war.