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Subject: Re: "C" vrs ADA
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Date: Fri, 21-Aug-87 05:15:30 EDT
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In article <7203@alice.UUCP>, ark@alice.UUCP writes:
> In article <12513@clyde.ATT.COM>, spf@clyde.UUCP writes:
> > Learn them both.  C is the assembly language, and Ada the High Order
> > Language (HOL), of the next ten years in the DoD community.
> 
> Ada is the Cobol of the 70's.

I always thought Ada was the PL/1 of the 80's.

[Anyway, it wasn't until the summer of 1979 that the Preliminary ADA
Reference Manual was available for public comment and certainly all
the environment that people are now claiming is part of the Ada
standard are creations of the 80's.]

------ BOB (webber@aramis.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!webber)