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Sender: "Team Ada: Ada Advocacy Issues (83 & 95)" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Microsoft products use Ada!!!!
From: Pat Rogers <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 09:50:24 -0500
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Mike,

There were numerous smileys implied there... nobody really thinks Microsoft
uses Ada.

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> From: [log in to unmask]
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Microsoft products use Ada!!!!
> Date: Tuesday, October 21, 1997 7:09 AM
>
> Gang:
>
> If you notice the caption on the certificate, it only says:
>
> "AGUSTA ADA BYRON - PIONEER IN COMPUTER PROGRAMMING"
>
> Nothing about using Ada to develop Windows 95.  As a matter of fact,
> from the number of bugs and the poor quality of the software smacks
> of hacked together C++.
>
> Mike Simpson
> Ada Software Engineer

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