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From: jerry@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk)
Subject: Re: Is Ada likely to survive ?
Date: 1997/08/11
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In article <5skhdb$pfc@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU writes:

>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?

That's easy: decimal types and partitioning.
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