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From: horstman@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Cay Horstmann)
Subject: Re: interesting statistic
Date: 24 Nov 89 17:44:08 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1989Nov24.174408.23364@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7172@hubcap.clemson.edu

In article <7172@hubcap.clemson.edu> billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu writes:
>From rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn):
>> I guess we can conclude that NTT maintained a commitment to Ada in spite of
>> a five-year lack of production-quality compilers???
>
>    Conclusion correct... they were apparently doing MIS applications 
>    in which the quality of the object code was not very important.
>
>
>    Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu

I guess we therefore can conclude that Ada is perfectly suited for doing
MIS applications in which the quality of the object code is not very important.

If Ada has friends like Bill, does it need enemies?  :-)

Cay
> 

  reply	other threads:[~1989-11-24 17:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1989-11-14 21:24 A farewell to Ada Ted Holden
1989-11-14 22:54 ` schmidt
1989-11-15 16:06 ` Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-11-15 16:29   ` Ada & IBM William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-11-17 15:16     ` ryer
1989-11-18 18:47       ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-11-20  4:53       ` Jerry Callen
1989-11-19  6:05     ` Dick Dunn
1989-11-22 19:20       ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-11-19 20:19     ` Liam R. E. Quin
1989-11-20 12:55       ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-11-25 23:35         ` Liam R. E. Quin
1989-11-26  9:03           ` Ken Ritchie
1989-11-15 23:18   ` Ada Promises Doug Schmidt
1989-11-16 22:45     ` Ada compilers William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-11-19  6:30       ` This has gotten stupid! Dick Dunn
1989-11-16 19:08   ` Ada Walter Rowe
1989-11-16 21:33     ` Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-11-17 18:53       ` Ada Pablo Fernicola
1989-11-18 18:55         ` Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-11-21  5:24           ` Ada Andrew Koenig
1989-11-22  9:54             ` Ada Mats Luthman
1989-11-22 18:44             ` Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-11-23  9:44               ` Ada Mats Luthman
1989-11-23  7:12             ` Ada Markku Sakkinen
1989-11-21 14:35           ` Ada [and the object oriented metaphor] mjl
1989-11-22 20:54             ` Hoare, Ada, and safety/complexity John Goodenough
1989-11-24  0:38               ` Richard Pattis
1989-11-26  6:09           ` Ada vs. C++ Paul S. R. Chisholm
1989-11-18  6:38       ` Ada Marco S Hyman
1989-11-19  7:25       ` interesting statistic Dick Dunn
1989-11-22 18:54         ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-11-24 17:44           ` Cay Horstmann [this message]
1989-11-25 19:59             ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-11-17 15:59     ` Ada allows one-char names (was Re: Ada) Steve Frysinger of Blue Feather Farm
1989-11-19  5:52   ` Forward into the past Dick Dunn
1989-11-20 16:47   ` Ada vs. Posix -- the battle continues mjl
1989-11-20 21:51     ` Ada & Posix William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-11-21  1:06       ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-11-15 18:55 ` A farewell to Ada Richard S D'Ippolito
1989-11-17 17:19 ` Michael Schwartz
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