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From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)
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Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use Ada?
Date: 8 Dec 1994 21:31:47 -0500
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In article <9412061309.AA02026@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu>,
Paige Vinall  <vinall@VNET.IBM.COM> wrote:

>If an ISUB dfined array is passed to a procedure, PL/I
>will compute an image of it.

That's what I thought.

>>Has PL/1 supported ISUB all along? I do not remember it from my
>>PL/1 days 20 or so years ago.

>I think so.

OK, fine. This is a very different animal from representing the array
in Fortran-friendly terms in the first place. Since Ada allows the
implementer to choose the representation, she can choose column-major.

Mike Feldman