From: billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 )
Subject: Re: interesting statistic
Date: 25 Nov 89 19:59:51 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7181@hubcap.clemson.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1989Nov24.174408.23364@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu
From horstman@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Cay Horstmann):
>>> I guess we can conclude that NTT maintained a commitment to Ada in spite of
>>> a five-year lack of production-quality compilers???
>>
>> Conclusion correct... they were apparently doing MIS applications
>> in which the quality of the object code was not very important.
%
% I guess we therefore can conclude that Ada is perfectly suited for doing
% MIS applications in which the quality of the object code is not very
% important.
Quite correct. Now that production-quality compilers are widely
available, it is also perfectly suited for an extremely wide range
of applications, and is being used accordingly.
Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1989-11-14 21:24 A farewell to Ada Ted Holden
1989-11-14 22:54 ` schmidt
1989-11-15 16:06 ` Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-15 16:29 ` Ada & IBM William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-17 15:16 ` ryer
1989-11-18 18:47 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-20 4:53 ` Jerry Callen
1989-11-19 6:05 ` Dick Dunn
1989-11-22 19:20 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-19 20:19 ` Liam R. E. Quin
1989-11-20 12:55 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-25 23:35 ` Liam R. E. Quin
1989-11-26 9:03 ` Ken Ritchie
1989-11-15 23:18 ` Ada Promises Doug Schmidt
1989-11-16 22:45 ` Ada compilers William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-19 6:30 ` This has gotten stupid! Dick Dunn
1989-11-16 19:08 ` Ada Walter Rowe
1989-11-16 21:33 ` Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-17 18:53 ` Ada Pablo Fernicola
1989-11-18 18:55 ` Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-21 5:24 ` Ada Andrew Koenig
1989-11-22 9:54 ` Ada Mats Luthman
1989-11-22 18:44 ` Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-23 9:44 ` Ada Mats Luthman
1989-11-23 7:12 ` Ada Markku Sakkinen
1989-11-21 14:35 ` Ada [and the object oriented metaphor] mjl
1989-11-22 20:54 ` Hoare, Ada, and safety/complexity John Goodenough
1989-11-24 0:38 ` Richard Pattis
1989-11-26 6:09 ` Ada vs. C++ Paul S. R. Chisholm
1989-11-18 6:38 ` Ada Marco S Hyman
1989-11-19 7:25 ` interesting statistic Dick Dunn
1989-11-22 18:54 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-24 17:44 ` Cay Horstmann
1989-11-25 19:59 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 [this message]
1989-11-17 15:59 ` Ada allows one-char names (was Re: Ada) Steve Frysinger of Blue Feather Farm
1989-11-19 5:52 ` Forward into the past Dick Dunn
1989-11-20 16:47 ` Ada vs. Posix -- the battle continues mjl
1989-11-20 21:51 ` Ada & Posix William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-21 1:06 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-15 18:55 ` A farewell to Ada Richard S D'Ippolito
1989-11-17 17:19 ` Michael Schwartz
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