Evaporating Jovial

[Bob Wells #402 <wel@EUROCONTROL.DE>]

G'day,
I have just been reading an article called "Aging Airways," by Gary Stix,
from the May 1994 issue of Scientific American and there is a quote in
the article that I was intrigued with.

I quote:

"Maintenance is becoming a black art. Parts are scarce. Old equipment has
to be cannibalized. Many of the technicians and support staff who were
schooled in the subtleties of 1960s vintage computers are retiring and
have not been replaced. 'There are very few programmers still competent in
Jovial," says Heinz Erzberger of the NASA Ames Research Center, referring
to a virtually extinct programming language used on some of the
air-traffic mainframes."

Is this true? Is there virtually no Jovial now being done?

BTW Happy New Year to everyone!

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