I guess that good to know. And I can sort of see it, from what little I remember of Turbo Pascal and Delphi, and a brief flirtation with Modula II. I've only had the GCC Ada compiler, and I don't really know how standard it is. But I don't think that Ada took off any better than PL/I did. So much for either of them being the "one language to rule them all". On z/OS, COBOL still seems to be King (at least in terms of number of lines of customer code). On UNIX, C/C++ seems to still the be the main winner, but with a large retinue of others (Perl, Python, Ruby, ...). On Windows, well I plead ignorance and apathy: I don't know and I don't care. I despise MS-Windows. As is likely well known by now.
On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 8:46 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) < [email protected]> wrote: > In > <caajsdjhovrtxbmxk+bhdqwookpp7_h3z4mtthsyoyzyjfnj...@mail.gmail.com>, > on 09/26/2013 > at 09:10 AM, John McKown <[email protected]> said: > > >"Ada is PL/I trying to be Smalltalk. -- Codoso diBlini > > Actually Ada comes from the Pascal tradition and is quite at variance > with PL/I. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT > ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> > We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. > (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- I have _not_ lost my mind! It is backed up on a flash drive somewhere. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
