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Date: 1 Jul 93 14:36:40 GMT
From: pipex!uknet!gdt!aber!fronta.aber.ac.uk!pcg@uunet.uu.net  (Piercarlo Grand
i)
Subject: Re: Yep, the Russians too...
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>>> 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.