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On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 12:11 AM, Scott Ford <[email protected]> wrote: > Gerhard, > I wonder why the government chose Ada...? > > Scott ford > www.identityforge.com > from my IPAD > > 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' > > >> On Sep 29, 2013, at 10:09 PM, Gerhard Postpischil <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> 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. >> >> Gerhard Postpischil >> Bradford, Vermont >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
