From: concert!uvaarpa!software.org!smithd@gatech.edu (Doug Smith)
Subject: Re: How to Make Ada more widely used?
Date: 9 Jun 93 14:27:12 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1993Jun9.142712.28839@software.org> (raw)
In article <dewar.739543517@schonberg> dewar@schonberg.NYU.EDU (Robert Dewar) w
rites:
>Greg Aharonian uses an interesting form of argument. His thesis is that
>the mandate is responsible for the lack of libraries etc. He never gives
>any hard data to support such a viewpoint (indeed it's hard to imagine how
>any such data could be obtained). So apparently he feels that an acceptable]
>substitute is simply to repeat the unsubstantiated claim seven times a day.
"...proof by repeated assertion."
quoted from Peopleware.
Doug
smithd@software.org
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1993-06-15 18:06 How to Make Ada more widely used? John Bollenbacher
1993-06-12 16:24 Bjarne Stroustrup
1993-06-12 14:53 Gregory Aharonian
1993-06-11 15:38 Charles H. Sampson
1993-06-10 2:05 Michael Feldman
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1993-06-09 4:27 Gregory Aharonian
1993-06-08 21:54 Kenneth Anderson
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1993-06-08 12:45 Robert Dewar
1993-06-08 4:08 Gregory Aharonian
1993-06-08 4:03 Michael Feldman
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1993-06-04 17:15 timothy shimeall
1993-06-04 4:57 Holmes S. Liao
1993-06-04 4:14 David Helken
1993-06-03 4:32 Gregory Aharonian
1993-06-02 18:23 David Emery
1993-06-02 1:12 Michael Feldman
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