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From: adam@irvine.com (Adam Beneschan)
Subject: Re: Is Ada likely to survive ?
Date: 1997/07/23
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Date: 1997-07-23T00:00:00+00:00
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 > rav@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (robin) writes:
 >  safetran <safetran@kaiwan.com> writes:
 >
 >  >I am looking for opinions on whether you think the Ada language is going
 >  >to be around in the next 5 years ?  How about 10 years ? 
 >  [snip]
 
 >If you're worried about the long-term availability, and want the
 >benefits of Ada, why not consider PL/I?
 >
 >   It provides the capability of Ada, particularly for real-time.
 >
 >   IBM has recently brought out PL/I for Windows 95 and Windows NT,
 >and shortly before that, for AIX and OS/2.  AFAIK, it is also
 >working on porting a version of that compiler for the mainframe.
 >
 >   That company has had PL/I on its mainframes for the past
 >30 years or so.

IMHO, this answers the original poster's question well.  If PL/I has
survived for 30 years, despite the fact that many of us rarely meet
anyone who actually uses it, then surely Ada will survive at least
that long.

1/2 :-)
                                -- Adam