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Leon Winslow <leon.winslow@notes.udayton.edu> writes:


> There is an irony here that most people might not appreciate.  COBOL was
> the first language mandated by the federal government.  I don't know if
> Ada was the second or there were one or more other languages in between
> these two.
>
> Some interesting questions might be:  Why was one more widely used than
> the other.  

Association with the military was the kiss of death as far
as many developers were concerned.

COBOL also had the benefit of backing by IBM.