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: 108717,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid108717,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b19fa62fdce575f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-14 12:50:54 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.tc.cornell.edu!newsserver.sdsc.edu!nic-nac.CSU.net!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!csusac!csus.edu!dick From: dick@silicon.csci.csusb.edu (Dr. Richard Botting) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.programming,comp.lang.c++,comp.object Subject: Re: COBOL origin (was Re: Why don't large companies use Ada?) Followup-To: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.programming,comp.lang.c++,comp.object Date: 14 Dec 1994 20:50:54 GMT Organization: CS Dept., Calif. State Univ., San Bernardino Distribution: usa Message-ID: <3cnlre$4r8@news.csus.edu> References: <3aa7jo$7j@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <3be9as$jrh@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <1994Nov29.182445.6678@eos.arc.nasa.gov> <1994Nov30.221351.2917@nosc.mil> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaze.csci.csusb.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: nntp.gmd.de comp.lang.ada:17510 comp.lang.c:72112 comp.programming:13477 comp.lang.c++:82786 comp.object:18601 Date: 1994-12-14T20:50:54+00:00 List-Id: Michael D Shapiro (mshapiro@nosc.mil) wrote: : In article <1994Nov29.182445.6678@eos.arc.nasa.gov>, : IanMaclure wrote: : >mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) writes: : > : >>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. [...snip] : One problem many people have with Ada is that it was not allowed to : evolve in the same way most other languages did. Ada, like COBOL, FORTRAN and other USA National Standards (like C) have an 11 year update cycle (if all goes well... FORTRAN 88 was a little late...). Ada 94 is going to be on time. : This lack of : incremental improvements has meant that new paradigms cannot be handled : easily, requiring instead a massive step that still won't turn out : right in the view of many. This view of a language, frozen in time, Are you sure you are talking about Ada, and not C, FORTRAN, COBOL,... ? : but it turns many : programmers off. Especially those who like debugging new features or hacking round ambiguities... -- EMail: dick@csci.csusb.edu=rbotting@wiley.csusb.edu. ftp://ftp.csci.csusb.edu/dick WWW Disclaimer::=`CSUSB may or may not agree with this message`. Copyright(1994)::=`Copy as long as you include this copyright and signature`.