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Subject: Re: Do we need "Mission-Critical" software? Was: What to Do?
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In article <93f73f$mt1$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
> My goodness, are you *REALLY* saying you have not heard of
> JOVIAL? And it is you who claims *I* don't know anything about
> what is going on???
>
> I would have especially thought that any Ada aware person would
> be familiar with JOVIAL since one of the major functions of
> Ada was to replace what was at one time fairly wide spread
> use of JOVIAL (= Jules Own Version of the International
> Algorithmic Language -- a verion of Algol). Do a little
> research here to find out just how amusing this ignorance is!

Most programmers in the world have an Ada knowledge as limited as my
Jovial knowledge.
There is indeed a bunch of Ada programmers with several years practice
who hardly heard the word Jovial :-)
I also know some languages worldwide popular for the small group from
which they come, but strangely unknown almost everywhere else ...

I suggest you send questions to big software companies about Jovial to
amuse them :-)
The percentage of users of this kind of languages is not especially
high, and not especially growing :-)

The world is greater than you think, I even know software companies not
 aware of ACT existence, and you must have missed some things more
important than Jovial and currently going on ... :-))
Guess what ? few people are still using Intel 286 and a lot of software
companies don't support it any more !!!



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