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From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: Ada's 15 Today!
Date: 1998/02/19
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And, I suppose like all children, it started out Green ...

== Nick Roberts ================================================
== Croydon, UK                       ===========================

Michael F Brenner <mfb@mbunix.mitre.org> wrote in article
<6ceth6$cmt@top.mitre.org>...
> Before Ada was standardized it was unstandardized.
> 
> And before that it was called DOD-I.
> 
> It's like a baby, according to some parents, starts as a twinkle
> in your mother's eye, then a dream in your father's mind, and
> whoooosh: there's a baby Ada, and it gets named, and it gets
> birthday presents: compilers, standardizations, and eventually
> goes to the vaccination clinic to get debuggers.