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: 1014db,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10d15b,d730ea9d54f7e063 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d15b,public From: Don Nelson Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because... Date: 1996/08/16 Message-ID: <3214B870.19B@tandem.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 174594668 references: <31EA0B65.3EF8@wgs.estec.esa.nl> <31EF7E48.5ABE@lmtas.lmco.com> <4ss8ru$3d4@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <31F28DBD.2A1D@harris.com> <31f3c52e.238719470 <4tnoeh$qjr@maverick.tad.eds.com> <4uj42h$j06@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> <4um1l9$klq@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> <4utuag$ii9@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Tandem Computers mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.cobol x-mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Macintosh; I; 68K) Date: 1996-08-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Joe Gwinn wrote: > > In article <4utuag$ii9@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net>, Craig Franck > wrote: > > > Norman Cohen's fine book on the Ada programing langauage states > > that "In April 1975, the Higher Order Language Working Group > > issued a set of sample requirements for DoD-1". I clearly > ---> ^^^^^ > > If I recollect, "DoD-1" was the original name for COBOL, back when Grace > Hopper was young, and I was playing with blocks. I guess this is the > first example of Ada reuse. Actually, the first COBOL book published by the DOD was "Report to Conference on Data Systems Languages Including Initial Specifications for a Common Business Oriented Language (COBOL) for Programming Electronic Digital Computers" in April of 1960. I am reading this from the cover. As far as I recall, this was never called DoD-1. The next one said about the same thing but "Initial" was "Revised". It was published in June of 1961 (and cost the amazing sum of $1.25 - you could purchase about three quarts of beer at my local saloon for that in 1961). It came to be called DOD-61. I was playing with computers then and Grace was in her 50s (which is young to me). -- Don Nelson COBOL Development, Tandem Computers, Inc. Member, ANSI X3J4 and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22 WG4 COBOL Committees nelson_don@tandem.com No clever quotes here