From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,86616b1931cbdae5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "W. Wesley Groleau x4923" Subject: Re: Is Ada likely to survive ? Date: 1997/07/28 Message-ID: <33DD01FA.247D@pseserv3.fw.hac.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 259899509 Sender: usenet@most.fw.hac.com (News Administration) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: sparc02 References: <33D005F2.E5DCD710@kaiwan.com> <33D3EC6E.7920@gsg.eds.com> Organization: Hughes Defense Communications Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-07-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > > How many languages *haven't* survived? > FWIW, plenty: ALGOL 58, COMIT, COMTRAN, FACT, IPL-V, NELLIAC, SIMULA, > TRAC and many more. I don't expect Ada to die in 10 years, but there > is ample precedent. I am aware of a 5 Mega-SLOC Ada project that used SIMULA quite a bit for modeling and prototyping, 1988-1994 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wes Groleau, Hughes Defense Communications, Fort Wayne, IN USA Senior Software Engineer - AFATDS Tool-smith Wanna-be Don't send advertisements to this domain unless asked! All disk space on fw.hac.com hosts belongs to either Hughes Defense Communications or the United States government. Using email to store YOUR advertising on them is trespassing! ----------------------------------------------------------------------