From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c62a5e526aafd9d4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-28 06:23:23 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <9onhgu$9h9$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3BAF77E6.9BDE9102@adaworks.com> <9onvig$f6n$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3bb05ee7.10496763@news.demon.co.uk> <3BB0B3C4.432E2B4B@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <3bb1d07f.18201562@news.demon.co.uk> <3BB2075A.57C22F55@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <3BB22F0E.718B1244@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <9otbs2$juj$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9ovaf2$c18$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3BB340C6.DC51CB98@lmtas.lmco.com> <9ovh43$erd$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Subject: Re: The Hobby Lobby was Windows CE? Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 09:23:03 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 13:23:03 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13462 Date: 2001-09-28T13:23:03+00:00 List-Id: In article <9ovh43$erd$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says... >The case you cite is a bit different. Fortran, as a language, has an >extremely large number of users in a wide variety of application areas. Actually, I don't think the variety of application areas is all that wide. Just because it sells well at LMC (and at my commercial flight simulator company as well, BTW), doesn't mean the average software developer even knows it exists. I run into a suprising amount of developers on the net who are convinced Fortran is a dead language. I believe this is the situation that getting boxes on store shelves would help to alleviate. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com