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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 <87zoh0lall.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>,
  Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:

> What was so special about this language that the DoD wanted
> to get rid of it, BTW?

That's a wrong impression, they did not specially want to get
rid of JOVIAL, and indeed JOVIAL for a long time had an ardent
band of supporters, but so did many of the other hundreds of
languages they were using, and the idea behind the HOLWG which
lead to Ada was to replace this babel with a single unifying
language. People complain that it is hard to find Ada engineers
to day, but this was nothing compared to finding engineers
familiar with some bizarre variant of JOVIAL or one of the
other peculiar languages used only on one or two projects.


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