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_20,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: 1997/08/16 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 264587809 References: <97081409425535@psavax.pwfl.com> Organization: New York University Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-08-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: John said <<>Charlton Heston doing Shakespeare? Ugh! That's like asking a >Cobol programmer to write Ada, or Neil Diamond to sing Gilbert >and Sullivan... :-)>> I have no opinion about whether Mr. Diamond could sing G&S, but it is clear that COBOL (please spell the name of the language correctly in a group which is so sensitive about the spelling of Ada (*)) programmers can and have written successful Ada code. Indeed this is the case in at least one of the important deployed mission critical systems in the DoD -- it was an Ada 95 program, large parts of which were written by programmers whose previous experience was in COBOL. In fact such statements about COBOL are almost always made out of ignorance by people who simply do not know COBOL. (*) COBOL is *not* a woman's name :-)