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  • =?UTF-8?Q?If_your_ideas_are_any_good=2C_you=E2=80=99ll_have?==?UTF-8?Q?_to_ram_them_down_people=E2=80=99s_throats=2E?=

    From =?UTF-8?Q?Niocl=C3=A1is=C3=ADn_C=C3=B3il=C3=ADn_de_Ghlost=C3=A9ir?=@Master_Fontaine_is_dishonest@Strand_in_London.Gov.UK to comp.lang.ada on Thu Mar 20 16:57:50 2025
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    Two hours ago Professor Arvind Narayanan uploaded to LinkedIn:
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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.lang.ada on Thu Mar 20 22:06:02 2025
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    On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 16:57:50 +0100, Niocláisín Cóilín de Ghlostéir wrote:

    Two hours ago Professor Arvind Narayanan uploaded to LinkedIn:
    "ideas are a dime a dozen and everyone else is too obsessed with their
    own ideas to pay attention to yours. As computing pioneer Howard Aiken
    said, "Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are
    any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.""

    What’s important is not the idea, but the execution. Prove your idea
    works, and maybe more people will pay attention to you.
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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?Niocl=C3=A1is=C3=ADn_C=C3=B3il=C3=ADn_de_Ghlost=C3=A9ir?=@Master_Fontaine_is_dishonest@Strand_in_London.Gov.UK to comp.lang.ada on Thu Mar 20 23:58:39 2025
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    Hello,

    An execution is of course important, but Ada works without being popular.
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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.lang.ada on Fri Mar 21 00:07:02 2025
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    On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 23:58:39 +0100, Niocláisín Cóilín de Ghlostéir wrote:

    An execution is of course important, but Ada works without being
    popular.

    Ada is the execution of an idea. Imagine if someone came up and said “let’s take Pascal as the basis for a high-reliability, real-time programming language”. Who would believe you?
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