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From: rav@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (robin)
Subject: Re: Is Ada likely to survive ?
Date: 1997/08/17
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Ejon <ejones7@ibm.net> writes:

	>robin wrote:
	>> 
	>>         dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
	>> 
	>>         >robin says
	>> 
	>>         >>You'll find those attributes in PL/I, which has traditionally
	>>         >>been used for building large systems.  Probably the most
	>>         >>widely-known of these projects is the Multics system.>>
	>> 
	>>         >Surely you can do better than that for an examle.

O.K.  How about: IBM's PL/I compilers for OS/2, AIX, Windows 95 and NT,
which are all written in PL/I.

	>>	   > TO contest people's
	>>         >(erroneous) view that a language is dead, it is not helpful to point
	>>         >to a system that was itself pretty much a failure, and which is most
	>>         >certainly itself dead now.


Multics was not "pretty much a failure", though it was a bit slow
getting off the ground.