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Subject: Re: "C" vrs ADA
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In the referenced article, ark@alice.UUCP wrote:
>In article <12513@clyde.ATT.COM>, spf@clyde.UUCP writes:
>> Learn them both.  C is the assembly language, and Ada the High Order
>> Language (HOL), of the next ten years in the DoD community.
>
>Ada is the Cobol of the 70's.

C is the FORTRAN of the '90s.
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