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From: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <nospam@gsg.eds.com>
Subject: Re: Why Ada is not the Commercial Lang of Choice
Date: 1997/07/07
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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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