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From: bagpiper@pnet02.gryphon.com (Michael Hunter)
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Subject: Re: ambiguous ? (God?  Will you forgive me for starting this?)
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Date: 26 Oct 89 02:00:20 GMT
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gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <14108@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>>The main (almost exclusive) reason C spreads to some
>>sites is that the _management_ begins to believe all the hype and
>>decides to _require_ conversion.
>Most C programmers that I know chose to use C without any prompting
>from management.  Hell, our management isn't qualified to choose
>programming languages for us.

Unfortunately they DON'T always think that!  Worse, is the governments
insistence that EVERYTHING be written in ADA and they can handle controlloing
the evolution of the language.....!!

Mike Hunter - Box's and CPU's from HELL: iapx80[012]86, PR1ME 50 Series, 1750a
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