>>> "W. Wesley Groleau x4923" <[log in to unmask]> 08/20/97
11:07am >>>
> >  Ada .... says the programmers working
> >  on the newer versions of the GPS software, originally written
> >  in Ada, want to use C++.
>
> ----------------How can we help to disabuse them of this conceit?

This merits a stronger word than conceit.  I _try_ to be polite to those
that prefer C++ to Ada for new code, but to rewrite working widely-used
Ada so that it's in C++ requires stupidity if not malice.
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Bravo!  A sentiment shared by many who read this thread.