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Date: 23 Feb 93 12:52:03 GMT
From: cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!firth@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Robert Fi
rth)
Subject: Re: Why IBM is a detriment to non-Mandate Ada growth
Message-ID: <1993Feb23.075203.24826@sei.cmu.edu>
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In article <SRCTRAN.93Feb22192350@world.std.com> srctran@world.std.com (Gregory
 Aharonian) writes:

>     Ada will forever be dead in the non-mandated world as long as IBM is
>silent about Ada.  Dead, dead, dead, no matter how many people pretend that
>Ada has some rosy future.

I rather doubt it.  Back when IBM was a five hundred pound gorilla, it
promoted a language called PL/I.  Turns out there are some things even
a gorilla can't do.

Besides, IBM won't be silent for much longer.  IBM won't be anything for
much longer.