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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5faad1722103f6a7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Message-ID: <40C38E7C.64564F@notes.udayton.edu> Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 17:37:00 -0400 From: Leon Winslow Reply-To: leon.winslow.junk@notes.udayton.edu X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics References: <90Stc.15309$be.3117@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net> <40b86431$0$186$edfadb0f@dread11.news.tele.dk> <40B888E0.5040707@noplace.com> <40B8C86A.3050302@noplace.com> <40BE6BFD.8030305@noplace.com> <40BF141F.8020001@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 131.238.72.218 X-Trace: sl-news. 1086568619 131.238.72.218 (6 Jun 2004 17:36:59 -0700) Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!green.octanews.net!news-out.octanews.net!news-out.visi.com!petbe.visi.com!news.octanews.net!ash.uu.net!sl-news. Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1175 Date: 2004-06-06T17:37:00-04:00 List-Id: 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