On 9/29/2013 9:45 PM, John McKown wrote:
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".
While I don't know what the current status is, there was at one time an edict that all U.S. Government work had to be done with Ada. A friend of mine spent almost as much time finding compiler (and language definition) problems as doing coding.
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