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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,86616b1931cbdae5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: Is Ada likely to survive ? Date: 1997/07/29 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 260162311 References: <33D005F2.E5DCD710@kaiwan.com> <33D3EC6E.7920@gsg.eds.com> <33DD01FA.247D@pseserv3.fw.hac.com> Organization: New York University Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-07-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: <<> > How many languages *haven't* survived? > FWIW, plenty: ALGOL 58, COMIT, COMTRAN, FACT, IPL-V, NELLIAC, SIMULA, > TRAC and many more. I don't expect Ada to die in 10 years, but there > is ample precedent. >> Algol 58 is a bogus entry, since this was never a language that was standardized and used, it was merely a precursor for Algol-60, a language that *does* still survive. COMIT was a very specialized language, very thinly used even at its height (I was at U of C, so I know about this quite well). If one has to reach down to this level of obscurity to find examples of languages that have not survived, then it tends to argue the other side of the case! SIMULA is still used, this is another bogus entry IPL-V was another very specialized language, not ever widely used and certainly not standardized. ... There are literally thousands of miscellaneous languages that have been used a bit, so it is agood thing that many have died off. Let's raise the bar a bit and ask for examples of languages that have not survived that had at least a national standard, and which were used on a wide variety of large projects. My count of the cardinality of this set is zero.