From: Leon Winslow <leon.winslow@notes.udayton.edu>
Subject: Re: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 17:37:00 -0400
Date: 2004-06-06T17:37:00-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40C38E7C.64564F@notes.udayton.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: i1Qvc.777$uX2.380@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net
Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> Marin David Condic wrote:
>
> > The bulk of software
> > development is being done in some other language besides Ada.
>
> Right. More SW is developed in COBOL than any other language.
>
> "COBOL? Not *that* dead, old failure!"
>
There is an irony here that most people might not appreciate. COBOL was
the first language mandated by the federal government. I don't know if
Ada was the second or there were one or more other languages in between
these two.
Some interesting questions might be: Why was one more widely used than
the other. What did the government do differently with COBOL and Ada
and what effect did it have?
Lee Winslow
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-06 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-29 1:51 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics Jeffrey Carter
2004-05-29 10:21 ` Per Dalgas Jakobsen
2004-05-29 12:58 ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-29 13:35 ` Ed Falis
2004-05-29 17:29 ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-29 17:40 ` Ed Falis
2004-05-29 18:44 ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-29 18:58 ` Ed Falis
2004-05-30 7:55 ` Pascal Obry
2004-05-30 11:43 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-05-30 16:10 ` Pascal Obry
2004-05-31 11:56 ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-29 17:48 ` Wes Groleau
2004-05-29 18:53 ` Marin David Condic
[not found] ` <n42jb05e8rk7bsrtf2ikesu9t0bsmbphji@4ax.com>
2004-05-31 12:04 ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-06 10:35 ` I R T
2004-05-30 7:50 ` Pascal Obry
2004-05-31 12:25 ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-02 16:45 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-06-02 17:48 ` Martin Dowie
2004-06-03 15:57 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-06-03 0:09 ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-03 1:08 ` Ed Falis
2004-06-03 12:06 ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-03 12:33 ` Ed Falis
2004-06-03 16:44 ` Wes Groleau
2004-06-03 17:52 ` tmoran
2004-06-04 1:13 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-06-04 11:27 ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-04 18:38 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-06-06 21:37 ` Leon Winslow [this message]
2004-06-07 11:08 ` I R T
2004-06-08 2:22 ` Richard Riehle
2004-06-08 9:07 ` I R T
2004-06-08 11:33 ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-09 21:02 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-06-09 21:22 ` Ed Falis
2004-06-09 23:30 ` Richard Riehle
2004-06-10 2:02 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-06-10 2:27 ` Ed Falis
2004-06-10 19:54 ` Jeffrey Carter
[not found] ` <28rfc01rhesdk2qt27krrr65nnk0n0kihc@4ax.com>
2004-06-12 3:01 ` non sequitur Robert I. Eachus
2004-06-11 16:51 ` 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics (COBOL Popularity) Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-06-11 17:18 ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-11 18:49 ` Richard Riehle
2004-06-11 19:07 ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-11 20:39 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-06-12 11:16 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-06-11 21:05 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-06-14 12:46 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-06-07 11:19 ` 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics Marin David Condic
2004-06-07 22:24 ` Alexander E. Kopilovich
2004-06-08 1:11 ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-08 2:35 ` Richard Riehle
2004-06-08 6:59 ` tmoran
2004-06-08 19:44 ` Wes Groleau
2004-06-09 1:32 ` Alexander E. Kopilovich
2004-06-09 6:23 ` Richard Riehle
2004-06-09 7:09 ` Martin Dowie
2004-06-10 1:41 ` Alexander E. Kopilovich
2004-06-10 6:13 ` Richard Riehle
2004-06-11 2:03 ` Alexander E. Kopilovich
2004-06-12 2:31 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-06-15 16:07 ` Richard Riehle
2004-06-09 7:54 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-06-09 6:31 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-06-09 9:43 ` I R T
2004-06-09 15:28 ` Jerry Petrey
2004-05-29 15:58 ` Preben Randhol
2004-05-29 17:45 ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-29 17:51 ` Ed Falis
2004-05-29 19:55 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-05-30 7:57 ` Pascal Obry
2004-05-30 18:35 ` Richard Riehle
2004-05-31 12:38 ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-04 12:56 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-06-05 8:49 ` Pascal Obry
2004-06-06 10:27 ` I R T
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-30 10:34 Rod Chapman
2004-06-03 8:18 ` Vernon Brown
2004-06-03 10:45 ` Martin Krischik
2004-06-03 15:52 ` Richard Riehle
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