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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7ee10ec601726fbf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-09 13:33:09 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!feed2.onemain.com!feed1.onemain.com!cyclone2.usenetserver.com!usenetserver.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr30.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Pat Rogers" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <3BC0B670.4B68D8DC@acm.org> <3BC23B9F.3B025363@pea.dk> <05Dw7.21484$ev2.29726@www.newsranger.com> <9pv2qu0kdo@drn.newsguy.com> <3BC35E74.E9C77736@easystreet.com> Subject: Re: is Ada dying? X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.191.176.121 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr30.news.prodigy.com 1002659547 ST000 208.191.176.121 (Tue, 09 Oct 2001 16:32:27 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 16:32:27 EDT Organization: Prodigy Internet http://www.prodigy.com X-UserInfo1: F[OUS^[BTRU[RID[N[OJNW@@YJ_ZTB\MV@BD]\YIJYWZUYICD^RAQBKZQTZTX\_I[^G_KGFNON[ZOE_AZNVO^\XGGNTCIRPIJH[@RQKBXLRZ@CD^HKANYVW@RLGEZEJN@\_WZJBNZYYKVIOR]T]MNMG_Z[YVWSCH_Q[GPC_A@CARQVXDSDA^M]@DRVUM@RBM Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 20:32:27 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14086 Date: 2001-10-09T20:32:27+00:00 List-Id: "Al Christians" wrote in message news:3BC35E74.E9C77736@easystreet.com... > "Robert*@" wrote: > > > > Ada makes a perfect replacment for COBOL. > > > > If we can target COBOL programmers (instead of the C/C++/Java ones), > > we will win in the end. > > Might need some kind of mainframe Ada for big IBM machines running > the OS's that big commercial IBM mainframe shops usually use to > run their COBOL applications. Isn't the Realia compiler PC based? I suspect the big-iron bias is not current.