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From: Ralph Paul <repaul@ibm.net>
Subject: Re: Why Ada is not the Commercial Lang of Choice
Date: 1997/06/30
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Date: 1997-06-30T00:00:00+00:00
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Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> Van Snyder says
> 
> <<Fortran 95 is _very_different_ from Fortran 66 in the respects about which you
> are probably complaining (but it's hard to tell, because you offer no
> specifics).
> >>
> 
> Right, and naturally the use of Fortran 95 is pretty much universal among
> Fortran programmers at this stage!
> 
> :-) (for the sarcasm detection impaired :-)

Fortran 95 is universal especially with those punching card trained
folks on VMS, .... (:-). Boy do I love those old timer programs =:-( 
( Fortran 4 sounds about right, maybe ?)

The problem with Fortan9x is not so much with language but with the fact
that
most people can still use like Fortran 77. ( Just my daily experience in
a big German aerospace company). 
More important than the language itself, whether it is Ada, Java,
Python,
C++,... , is the need to teach people to apply software engineering
skills.
Learning Ada seems to help in that respect (:-).

Regards,

Ralph Paul

( ex University of Stuttgart but still trying to convince people of the
  benefits of software engineering with Ada (:-) )