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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use Ada?
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Note that one significant reason that PL/1 failed was the very poor initial
implementations that IBM produced early on, leading for example to the
rather disastrous reversal of the Sears commitment and their reversion
to COBOL, which had nothing to do with the DoD or procurement as I remember!