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Sender: "Team Ada: Ada Advocacy Issues (83 & 95)" <[log in to unmask]>
X-To: "Doran, Steven" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 09:32:56 +1100
From: Geoffrey Bull <[log in to unmask]>
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I am so sick of seeing this.
All the best bits are not true.
There were no yanks and the "stinger missiles" were in fact beach balls.
And apparently it wasn't even object-oriented code.
And it probably wasn't even a mistake, just a bit of fun.

Doran, Steven wrote:

> * From June 15, 1999 Defense Science and Technology Organization lecture
> Series, Melbourne, Australia, and staff reports.
>
> Careless Code Recycling Causes Killer Kangaroos
>
> Mutant Marsupials Take Up Arms Against Australian Air Force
>
> The reuse of some object-oriented code has caused tactical headaches for

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