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From: eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
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Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use Ada?
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In article <3bcntp$dgj@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

 > Add to Mike's list of "military" inventions: Internet itself, which
 > presumably most participants in this newsgroup find useful :-)

   About six months ago I had to research part of the history of the
first DoD developed portable high-level language.  It is called COBOL.
;-)

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					Robert I. Eachus

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