Pascal is like an improved PL/I, Ada is an improved Pascal. On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 8:13 AM, Scott Ford <[email protected]> wrote: > David, > I am not familiar with Ada, interesting have written C,Cobol,PL/1 . ADA like > other languages sounds like it has it strengths. > > Scott ford > www.identityforge.com > from my IPAD > > 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' > > >> On Sep 30, 2013, at 2:25 AM, David Crayford <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 30/09/2013 2:11 PM, Mike Schwab wrote: >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)#History >> >> There is no doubt that Ada is a much, much better programming language then >> PL/I, C, COBOL etc. It's lack of popularity is probably due to >> the substantial inertia of it's peers, ala Betamax vs VHS. >> >>>> 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 >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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
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