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From: Lao Xiao Hai <laoxhai@ix.netcom.com>
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Date: 2000/11/09
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Concering Dale's message, below,  if anyone knows the authors or can
find
their email addresses, we should try to update them on the current
status
of the language.  The ignorance expressed in their work is not so
unusual for
this kind of book.  I recently tracked down another author, who I will
not
name, and received a thanks for being brought up-to-date.   Most authors

do not want to publish incorrect information, it seems.

Richard Riehle

dale wrote:

> From
>    The Engineering of Software
>    Hamlet & Maybee, Addison Wesley, -2001-!
>
>    "Ada is Pascal based, but it is a complex language
>     designed by committee for the military, and that's
>     at least three strikes against it."
>
> Also says that Ada is still mandated for use by the U.S.
> Dept. of Defense, and that it is not well supported on
> P.C.s
>
> Sigh.
>
> Dale