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From: fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: Is Ada likely to survive ?
Date: 1997/08/10
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Date: 1997-08-10T00:00:00+00:00
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dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

>COBOL is still a very
>widely used language, and is still the language of choice for developing
>new information systems applications. That's not surprising, it has
>features that are not duplicated in other mainstream languages such
>as C++, Fortran, and Java, that are critical (interestingly Ada 95 is
>the one other standardized language that *does* have the necessary
>features).

Which features are the ones that you consider critical for information
systems applications?

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