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From: vsnyder@gyre.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder)
Subject: Re: Why Ada is not the Commercial Lang of Choice
Date: 1997/06/25
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Date: 1997-06-25T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <5o84gh$1a0s@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>, ica2ph@alpha1.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de (Peter Hermann) writes:

|> Experience indicates that in particular those people with long-term
|> experience in very large software systems with those worn-out programming
|> languages like Fortran or C ...

Do you know that Eisenhower is no longer the president of U.S.A, and that
Adenauer is dead?

Fortran 95 is _very_different_ from Fortran 66 in the respects about which you
are probably complaining (but it's hard to tell, because you offer no
specifics).

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What fraction of Americans believe   |  Van Snyder
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