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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada -- a popular language?
Date: 1997/04/15
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David said

<<Just think what would have happened if IBM had bundled Ada with the
early PCs rather than microsoft Basic!>>

I see no evidence that the pathetic basic interpretor included in the PC
(which was there to support stand alone games in diskless configurations)
had any significant effect on the program development community.