interesting statistic

[rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)]

Wolfe wrote:
[about Ada]
|    The fact that good production-quality compilers have only been
|    avaliable for the last year or two probably has a lot to do with it...
...and later in the same article...
|    Considering that the largest corporation in the WORLD, Nippon 
|    Telegraph and Telephone, has maintained a committment to Ada 
|    since 1982 (!!!), I'd say that Ada is certainly making excellent 
|    progress in the commercial environment...

Considering those two together, I'd say Ada's appeal must be nothing short
of amazing!  Call it two years that production-quality compilers have been
available, i.e., 1987...

I guess we can conclude that NTT maintained a commitment to Ada in spite of
a five-year lack of production-quality compilers???
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