On 2013-09-30 16:40, Mike Schwab wrote:
Pascal is like an improved PL/I, Ada is an improved Pascal.
I would rather say that Pascal is a very inferior copy of PL/I.
Robert
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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
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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
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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.
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