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: 10261c,cfbb90c56a313e70 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,cfbb90c56a313e70 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: randhol+abuse@pvv.org (Preben Randhol) Subject: Re: From extended Pascals to Ada 95 guide Date: 2000/08/25 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 662418053 References: <8o3s2a$9ph$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8o4bfq$v0h$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net> <39A655BE.18E89020@maths.unine.ch> X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no X-Trace: kopp.stud.ntnu.no 967220850 23430 129.241.83.82 (25 Aug 2000 16:27:30 GMT) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (Linux) NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Aug 2000 16:27:30 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.pascal.misc Date: 2000-08-25T16:27:30+00:00 List-Id: On Fri, 25 Aug 2000 13:17:19 +0200, Gautier wrote: >James Smith: > >> Too bad the US gov didn't save some taxpayer dollars by just adopting Modula >> 2. Of course that would have made too much sense. > >To save dollars they also could have adopted C... I don't think a big project written in C would be very cost efficient compared to Ada. Thus perhaps saving money in the short run (by not developing Ada), but not in the long run at all. -- Preben Randhol - Ph.D student - http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ "i too once thought that when proved wrong that i lost somehow" - i was hoping, alanis morisette