From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,86616b1931cbdae5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Steve Jones - JON Subject: Re: Is Ada likely to survive ? Date: 1997/07/30 Message-ID: <2sen8g8pqk.fsf@hpodid2.eurocontrol.fr>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 260627445 References: <33D005F2.E5DCD710@kaiwan.com> <33D3EC6E.7920@gsg.eds.com> <33DD01FA.247D@pseserv3.fw.hac.com> Organization: Eurocontrol Experimental Centre, Bretigny-Sur-Orge, France Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-07-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: [snip] > There are literally thousands of miscellaneous languages that have been > used a bit, so it is agood thing that many have died off. Let's raise > the bar a bit and ask for examples of languages that have not survived > that had at least a national standard, and which were used on a wide > variety of large projects. Now while the language "CORAL" is not dead and is still being maintained I can not imagine it ever being considered for a new project which would certainly suggest it is on the way to extinction. The language that really did for CORAL was Ada. CORAL IIRC was a British Ministry of Defence creation for the same reason (but at an earlier time) that the DoD came up with Ada. -- |---------------- C++ is to OO what C is to structured --------------------| |----The above opinions rarely reflect my own and never my employers'------| |Do not add me to mailing lists violations will be billed for time. |