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From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)
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Subject: interesting statistic
Message-ID: <1989Nov19.072556.14606@ico.isc.com>
Date: 19 Nov 89 07:25:56 GMT
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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???
-- 
Dick Dunn     rcd@ico.isc.com    uucp: {ncar,nbires}!ico!rcd     (303)449-2870
   ...`Just say no' to mindless dogma.