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From: beierl_c@apollo.HP.COM (Christopher Beierl)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Making "archaic" languages like C, COBOL illegal
Keywords: archaic, languages, C, Fortran, Basic, Ada, legislation, laws
Message-ID: <44c5545f.19050@apollo.HP.COM>
Date: 1 Aug 89 15:55:00 GMT
References: <9693@aw.sei.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: beierl_c@apollo.COM (Christopher Beierl)
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA
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In article <9693@aw.sei.cmu.edu> mcp@sei.cmu.edu (Mark Paulk) writes:
[...]>
>Did you know that Congressman A. F. Day has introduced legislation that

I would guess that the Congressman's middle name is Fools and his first is
probably April (must be a Congresswoman :).

>would make Ada the official computer language of the United States?  This
>appeared in a sidebar in the Hurst Project Managers' Newsletter, v. 1, no. 6,
>June 1989, p.10, being quoted from "Tools of the Trade" by Warren Keuffel,
>"Computer Language" of April 1989, page 31.
>
[...]
>
>I would laugh, except there's always the possibility that this bill could
>be passed.  Does anyone out there know what the status of this is?  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 :-)
>--
>Mark C. Paulk 
>    mcp@sei.cmu.edu
>      "Maturity is a function of scar tissue."


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