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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b19fa62fdce575f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 108717,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid108717,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-11-28 21:18:13 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!gwu.edu!gwu.edu!not-for-mail From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.programming,comp.lang.c++,comp.object Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use Ada? Date: 28 Nov 1994 23:05:48 -0500 Organization: George Washington University Message-ID: <3be9as$jrh@felix.seas.gwu.edu> References: <3aa7jo$7j@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <3b5h8q$de0@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <3bcntp$dgj@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.164.9.3 Xref: nntp.gmd.de comp.lang.ada:17030 comp.lang.c:70150 comp.programming:13150 comp.lang.c++:80780 comp.object:17918 Date: 1994-11-28T23:05:48-05:00 List-Id: In article , Robert I. Eachus wrote: > About six months ago I had to research part of the history of the >first DoD developed portable high-level language. It is called COBOL. >;-) Jean Sammet and others who were on the original CODASYL committee swear that COBOL was _not_ "DoD-developed", rather that DoD was one of many players involved. Obviously DoD had an interest in COBOL, but can not be said to have "commissioned" or funded COBOL in the sense that they did with Ada. Can anyone else fill in gaps here? I'm adding my two cents only to get the facts straight. The other stuff on thge list we've been accumulating here really was Dod funded (X, Berkeley Unix, TCPIP, Internet, etc.). Indeed, many people credit AT&T with popularizing Unix; my recollection is that AT&T Unix was something of a research curiosity till Berkeley "enhanced" it and - a few years later - Sun Microsystems (which can be thought of as originally a Berkeley "spinoff") popularized it as a commercial system. Berkeley's funding came (mostly) from ARPA. Mike Feldman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael B. Feldman - chair, SIGAda Education Working Group Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science The George Washington University - Washington, DC 20052 USA 202-994-5919 (voice) - 202-994-0227 (fax) - mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Internet) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ada on the World-Wide Web: http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Illegitimi non carborundum." (Don't let the bastards grind you down.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------