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Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 22:55:21 -0400
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"Richard Riehle" <adaworks@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> Once a language, or any other product, has gotten a bad
> reputation, it is difficult to overcome it. I know people who
> will not buy a Jaguar because it is, by reputation, so hard to
> maintain.   Others will not buy a Volkswagen because it is
> Hitler's car (and the VW van was designed, according to
> them, to help transport people to the holocaust).

I have recently come back to the Ada95 table (both professionally and as a
hobbyist), and I happen to drive a VW... Surely that has to count for
*something*... <g>