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From: mab@dst1.wdl.loral.com (Mark A Biggar)
Subject: Re: Is Ada likely to survive ?
Date: 1997/08/13
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Date: 1997-08-13T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <01bca387$42ffbce0$18a9f5cd@asip120> "Paul Van Bellinghen" <pvanbell@mhv.net> writes:
>I think the prime example of a language that just refuses to give up the
>ghost is FORTRAN. Here's a language that had roots at least as far back as
>COBOL ( I really didn't research it - I'm just going by my vague
>recollection).  FORTRAN used to be the language of choice for the
>scientific community and remained so for non-real time applications right
>on through the 70s. I remember maintaining a cross compiler written for a
>microprocessor chip I was using at General Instrument Corp. back in 1980. I
>wrote some flight data analysis programs on a VAX/VMS in the early 80s at
>Loral Corp. Rather than seeing FORTRAN fade away, its proponents keep
>trying to "modernize" it (1977, 1994, etc..).

Dijkstra once said that he didn't have any idea what language we would
all be programming in in 2020 but that there was a high probability
that it would be called FORTRAN :-)

--
Mark Biggar
mab@wdl.lmco.com