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From: smize@news.imagin.net (Samuel Mize)
Subject: Re: Microsoft & Ada
Date: 1998/05/12
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Date: 1998-05-12T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <6j6n9l$ql@dolphin.pst.cfmu.eurocontrol.be>,
Dirk Craeynest <crt@cfmu.eurocontrol.be> wrote:

>Byte / April 1998 / Cover Story : Crash-Proof Computing 
...
>    purpose. Ada, a 1970s language developed for the U.S. Department
>    of Defense, contains similar safeguards. But Java is the newest
>    language to win broad support from tool vendors, developers, OS
>    vendors, and schools. 
>
>"Ada, a 1970s language developed for the U.S. DoD" is clearly not "new"
>enough to be considered interesting.

Would that 70s language be Ada 83 or Ada 95?

How sad that Byte can't even count by tens.

Best,
Sam Mize
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