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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
>>
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