From: pipex!uknet!gdt!aber!fronta.aber.ac.uk!pcg@uunet.uu.net (Piercarlo Grand
Subject: Re: Yep, the Russians too...
Date: 1 Jul 93 14:36:40 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <PCG.93Jul1153640@decb.aber.ac.uk> (raw)
>>> On Mon, 14 Jun 1993 11:47:05 EDT, wellerd@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (David
>>> Weller) said:
David> Russia has been actively using Ada for many years, and has
David> recently chosen it as their language for government-supported
David> projects (sound familiar?). It is becoming widely embraced by
David> the programming community throughout Russia (sound UNfamiliar?
David> :-)
It does not strike me as so strange, on reflection. The URSS CS culture
has always been centered around Algol-like languages, and Ada perhaps
looks to them sufficiently algolish.
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1993-07-01 17:50 Yep, the Russians too Wes Groleau X7574
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