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From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)
Subject: Re: ISO standards (see Ada95 chpt. 1.2)
Date: 1995/04/04
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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