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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: errors in CACM column
Date: 4 May 2003 17:26:13 -0500
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In article <4Ejsa.170716$gK.261856@rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net>, tmoran@acm.org writes:
> Robert Glass' Practical Programmer column argues that popular languages
> are domain-independent (eg C), but good ones are domain-dependent (eg
> Fortran).  He then says that Ada was designed to be domain-specific for
> real-time, but was converted to "make a domain-independent sow's ear out
> of a domain-specific silk purse."  My understanding is that is incorrect
> as history.  He then says "...  and Ada died the kind of slow death that
> PL/1 has."  This appears incorrect as current events, as, say, a glance at
> comp.lang.ada vs comp.lang.pl1 shows.

I have been told by a PL/I expert that the real PL/I discussions
take place on a mailing list rather than in a newsgroup.