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From: Ken Garlington <garlingtonke@lmtas.lmco.com>
Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because...
Date: 1996/08/19
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Joe Gwinn wrote:
> 
> But, clearly, if COBOL was DoD-61, there must have been a DoD-1 before
> COBOL, so Ada cannot be the first to have been called DoD-1.

Given that the revised report was published in '61, I'm not sure why there
would have to have been a DoD-1 (1901) preceding it.

Clearly, DoD-1 (Ada) should have been DoD-80 or something like that. Of course,
you _could_ argue that the designers of Ada were looking forward to 2001... :)

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