From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)
Subject: Re: ISO standards (see Ada95 chpt. 1.2)
Date: 1995/04/04
Date: 1995-04-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3lri6q$9en@felix.seas.gwu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3lplqn$12p1@watnews1.watson.ibm.com
In article <3lplqn$12p1@watnews1.watson.ibm.com>,
Norman H. Cohen <ncohen@watson.ibm.com> wrote:
>Some interesting statistics computed from Ivan's data:
>Language standard $US Pages $US/Page
> Fortran $224 369 0.61
> COBOL $13 1 13.00
> Ada $266 511 0.52
> C $166 219 0.76
>Clear evidence that Ada is the most cost-effective language!
>;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)
You're absolutely right, Norm. I especially like the COBOL standard.
COBOL must be a _very_ concise language. :-)
Actually, for $39.95, one can pick up a copy of the Ada CD-ROM set,
which has all the Ada documents - LRM, Rationale, etc. etc., in
PostScript, ASCII, and HTML. Now THAT's cost-effective.. :-)
Ada is the only language for which the standard is, and will remain,
available free in electronic form.
Mike Feldman
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1995-03-14 19:45 ISO standards (see Ada95 chpt. 1.2) Ivan B. Cvar
1995-03-16 8:59 ` agurski on BIX
1995-03-16 17:55 ` Tucker Taft
1995-03-30 0:00 ` Ivan B. Cvar
1995-03-30 0:00 ` David Weller
1995-04-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1995-04-03 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1995-04-04 0:00 ` Michael Feldman [this message]
1995-04-05 0:00 ` Theodore Dennison
1995-04-05 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1995-04-03 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1995-03-16 14:30 ` Doc Elliott
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