From: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <nospam@gsg.eds.com>
Subject: Re: Why Ada is not the Commercial Lang of Choice
Date: 1997/07/07
Date: 1997-07-07T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <33C1383C.569A@gsg.eds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.867970213@merv
Robert Dewar wrote:
>
> Interesting, why the shudder at COBOL. I have written a lot of COBOL, and
> find it quite amenable. For IS Systems, I would use the ranking:
>
> Ada/95
> COBOL
> Ada/83
> C
I've lost touch with the language revisions on COBOL, but the last I
looked
thy were still using integers as keywords, e.g., 77, 88. That by itself
is
enough to provoke a world-class shudder.
FWIW I'd use the ranking:
PL/I
Ada 95
Ada 83
HLA
COBOL
C
I'm ignoring special purpose languages like ICON, REXX and SETL in the
ranking, since they don't have production quality compilers suitable for
number crunching, but they have their significant uses as well.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
Senior Software SE
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Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-06-18 0:00 Why Ada is not the Commercial Lang of Choice Robert I. Eachus
1997-06-18 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Steve Jones - JON
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Anonymous
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1997-07-17 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-06-21 0:00 ` Paul Van Bellinghen
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-23 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-07-03 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-07-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-06 0:00 ` Yasmiin S. Davis
1997-07-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-07 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz [this message]
1997-07-04 0:00 ` Paul Van Bellinghen
1997-07-13 0:00 ` Ken Mays
1997-07-13 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1997-07-14 0:00 ` Ken Mays
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Nick Leaton
1997-06-23 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-06-24 0:00 ` Bertrand Meyer
1997-06-24 0:00 ` Nick Leaton
1997-07-22 0:00 ` Dr. Vladimir Il'ich Fomin
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Donovan Baarda
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Roy Grimm
1997-06-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-24 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-06-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-23 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-21 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1997-06-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-24 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-06-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-28 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-06-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1997-06-13 0:00 Paul Van Bellinghen
1997-06-17 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1997-06-17 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1997-06-18 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-06-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-20 0:00 ` nma123
1997-06-24 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1997-06-18 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-06-18 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-25 0:00 ` Van Snyder
1997-06-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-30 0:00 ` Ralph Paul
1997-07-02 0:00 ` Joerg Rodemann
1997-07-02 0:00 ` Ralph Paul
1997-07-02 0:00 ` Joerg Rodemann
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Anonymous
1997-07-22 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
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