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
