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From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Legislative Mandate for Ada
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Date: 17 Dec 90 20:57:48 GMT
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In article <9728@as0c.sei.cmu.edu> bwb@sei.cmu.edu (Bruce Benson) writes:
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>Nope, just fears.  I sat in a meeting where an individual (working in
>one of the military service DoD secretariets) insisted that any university
>that got federal money (ROTC, research grants, etc.) should be told to teach 
>Ada or have their money taken away.  Luckily, no one took him too seriously,
>but his position was such that many people have to take him seriously (and
>he advises other more senior people on technical issues, such as Ada).

Sheesh! No wonder Ada has a bad name, with guys like this rattling
around the Ada business. I'll bet he's a friend of Reagan who believes that
government should get off the backs of the people, too. :-)

Every time I start thinking charitably, someone comes along and makes a
good case for cynicism. Sad commentary.

Mike Feldman