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From: riehler@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Richard Riehle)
Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use Ada?
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In article <19941203.130921.511@almaden.ibm.com> vinall@VNET.IBM.COM (Paige Vinall) writes:
>In <3bmb4r$9kc@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> Robert Dewar writes:
>>Note that one significant reason that PL/1 failed was the very poor initial
>
>Please don't use the past tense with PL/I.  IBM makes millions of
>dollars on PL/I.
>
>Paige Vinall - PL/I Development Manager, IBM
>Internet: vinall@vnet.ibm.com,  Phone: (408) 463-2106

Paige,

  Sorry that some of us (who have good experiences with PL/1 ) have 
  prematurely spoken of PL/1 in the past tense. 

  Can anyone out there confirm that Alsys' first Ada compiler was written
  in PL/1?

  Richard Riehle