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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,6609c40f81b32989 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,9bdec20bcc7f3687 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Thread: 101deb,e67cdb1dcad3c668 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,gid8d3408f8c3,gidbda4de328f,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!porbandar.httrack.net!news.httrack.net!exabot.com!freenix!fdn.fr!u-picardie.fr!news.ecp.fr!news-in.maxbaud.net!s03-b16.iad!npeersf02.iad.highwinds-media.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.posted.lerostechnologies!news.posted.lerostechnologies.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:18:07 -0500 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.pl1 From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:50:44 -0400 Subject: Re: Why is Ada considered "too specialized" for scientific use References: <4bb9c72c$0$6990$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> <4bba8bf1$0$56418$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> <4bbb2246$8$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> <4bbb5386$0$56422$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> <4bbdf5c6$1$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> <4c0a2e36$0$34205$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> <4c0b234f$1$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> <4c0cc11c$0$56569$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> <874gafFcadU1@mid.individual.net> <4c0e282d$0$56573$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> Mail-Copies-To: nobody Organization: Atid/2 X-CompuServe-Customer: Yes X-Coriate: interspeed.co.nz X-Ecrate: tanandtanlawyers.com X-Pose: George Cox X-Punge: Micro$oft X-Sanguinate: The MVS Guy X-Terminate: SPA(GIS) X-Tinguish: Mark Griffith X-Treme: C&C,DWS X-WebTV-Stationery: Standard; BGColor=black; TextColor=black Message-ID: <4c0f7204$2$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> X-Newsreader: MR/2 Internet Cruiser Edition for OS/2 v3.00.11.18 BETA/60 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.103.155.229 X-Trace: sv3-vdd8wRf/1fqcNOlsFt9OcM9uu/yhvqsGHn3YTjIvmdYs8MOeXrvNfB0/bpmlz69GDD4vV8u6OqzIrbs!yIfu082hLXDabIvsRVysZGVPxPwX+qy7ktzq7DeG1sHQTRaIO4PM/YYP9a1zQPCLxVUyMjJwJgwf!ggrH7HvZlfxqVUTT4058fAb9jpY2WdVMZjA= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11520 comp.lang.fortran:24266 comp.lang.pl1:1451 X-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 04:19:10 MST (s03-b16.iad) Date: 2010-06-09T06:50:44-04:00 List-Id: In <4c0e282d$0$56573$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net>, on 06/08/2010 at 09:23 PM, "robin" said: >Drum memories were't successor to anything. That part may be true. >They were intended as a cheap but fast mass-storage device. ROTF,LMAO. They were expensive and small. They were used as the main memories in, e.g., UNIVAC 1103, IBM 650. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Unsolicited bulk E-mail subject to legal action. I reserve the right to publicly post or ridicule any abusive E-mail. Reply to domain Patriot dot net user shmuel+news to contact me. Do not reply to spamtrap@library.lspace.org