From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_05 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 8 Jun 93 12:45:17 GMT From: netnews!schonberg!dewar@nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: How to Make Ada more widely used? Message-ID: List-Id: 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.