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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
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Subject: Re: Do we need "Mission-Critical" software? Was: What to Do?
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In article <93f9tu$p2r$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  n_brunot@my-deja.com wrote:
> I suggest you send questions to big software companies about
> Jovial to amuse them :-)

Chuckle chuckle, I guess you did NOT bother to look up Jovial.
As I say, it is surprising for people using Ada to have so
little awareness of the history of the development of the
language.

> 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 ... :-))

I think you will find that there are few programming languages
that are or have every been in serious use with which I am not
familiar (this is after all my field of research :-)

> Guess what ? few people are still using Intel 286 and a lot
> of software companies don't support it any more !!!

286's are most certainly used in a number of embedded
applications. It is also important to remember that Rad
hardened parts often come out LONG after the normal consumer
chips, so space apps are often using what seem to be quite
old processors. Also, old processors almost never die (just
as old languages tend not to die off completely), a lot of
work is still being done on the 1750, and Vaxes are I think
still being manufactured (or perhaps they just stopped this
month?)

P.S. Poor old Jules, it seems sad that there would be people
who consider themselves Ada knowledgable who have not heard
of JOVIAL :-)


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