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From: lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.infosystems
Subject: Re: Ada & IBM
Message-ID: <1989Nov25.233542.27475@sq.sq.com>
Date: 25 Nov 89 23:35:42 GMT
References: <1989Nov19.201959.15369@sq.sq.com> <7127@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Reply-To: lee@sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin)
Organization: Unixsys (UK) Ltd
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

[I wrote]
>> No doubt the simple elegance of Ada appealed to IBM
[Bill Wolf wrote]
>   Actually, it's rather surprising, since their background has
>   largely consisted of primitive languages which offer little
>   or no support for the software engineering process.  It's good
>   to see IBM finally recognizing this major advance in software 
>   engineering technology.

Uh, did I leave off the :-) signs?  I was not being serious. 

Let's not start religious Ada vs. <whatever> quarrels.
[mail me if you absolutely must, I'll try not to take EXCEPTION :-)].

Lee


-- 
Liam R. Quin, Unixsys (UK) Ltd [note: not an employee of "sq" - a visitor!]
lee@sq.com (Whilst visiting Canada from England, until Christmas)
Software engineering is largely a philosophy, a state of mind.