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From: ted@grebyn.com (Ted Holden)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Socioeconomics, Ada, C++
Message-ID: <1991May19.024028.7421@grebyn.com>
Date: 19 May 91 02:40:28 GMT
References: <ENAG.91May12230018@maud.ifi.uio.no* <1991May18.022831.20653@grebyn.com* <1991May18.061407.25436@milton.u.washington.edu*
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In article <1991May18.061407.25436@milton.u.washington.edu* reeses@milton.u.washington.edu (Feltch Master) writes:
*In article <1991May18.022831.20653@grebyn.com* ted@grebyn.com (Ted Holden) writes:
**see the entire mainstream of American computer science using C++, and
**DOD off in left field in a little toilet-bowl of its own making, paying
**ten times the going rate and taking ten times the time for everything
**they ever do;  they'll get no help other than from small-potatoes
**organizations such as Janus and/or Meridian etc. etc.  And all of this
*                                             ^^^^^^^^^
*					Yeah, like that small-
*					potatoes group of people
*					who call themselves the
*					European Economic Community...

I hate to have to point out anything so obvious...  Perhaps in
automobiles, and various other areas of life Europe is other than
small-time, but computer science.....   I'm afraid you've hit the nail
straight on the head.  Think of it this way:  European "computer
science" gave us Ada.  Enough said.
 
**Ted Holden
**HTE