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From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Making "archaic" languages like C, COBOL illegal
Keywords: archaic, languages, C, Fortran, Basic, Ada, legislation, laws
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Date: 1 Aug 89 15:09:53 GMT
References: <9693@aw.sei.cmu.edu>
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Well, I was got good, as was pointed out after I reposted this article
around BBN.

In article <9693@aw.sei.cmu.edu> mcp@sei.cmu.edu (Mark Paulk) writes:
|While visiting sunny, smoggy southern California, my colleague Albert Johnson
|noticed an interesting article which he describes in the following post made
|at the SEI.  It also seems of interest to netland...
|
|=======
|
|Did you know that Congressman A. F. Day has introduced legislation that
|would make Ada the official computer language of the United States? . . .
|[from] "Computer Language" of April 1989, page 31.
    . . . .
|If you have comments, you may write to:
|
|The Honorable A. F. Day
|401 Rayburn Office Building
|Washington, D. C.  04189
    . . . .
|								     If it
|was discussed in April, I would hope that it's a dead issue by now.
|Otherwise we might be facing another PI=22/7 by legislative fiat joke :-)

Oh, it was April all right.  Check the Congressman's name, office
number, and ZIP code.
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