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From: bohn@rational.com
Subject: Re: Multiple reasons for failure of Ariane 5 (was: Re: Ariane 5 - not
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Date: 1996/08/08
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In Article<4u6723$kp2@piglet.cc.uic.edu>, <U32872@uic.edu> writes:

> That is certainly true but, I think, PL/1 attracts programmers who are 
> already well endowed with intelligence.

That's no more true/false than any other language. I've used PL/1 quite
a bit in the past. I saw some truely stupid people pretending to be
great software people. I saw some truely BAD PL/1 software. I also saw
the opposite.