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From: karenc@amadeus.LA.TEK.COM (Karen Cate)
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 15:40:21 GMT
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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
>would make Ada the official computer language of the United States?  This

I would expect that even if congress were stupid enough to pass such a law,
it would be thrown out in the courts as a restraint of trade, or something.
Wouldn't they?  I hope?

Well, I guess if they do get serious, we can just threaten their credit
ratings... :-)

Karen A. Cate
karenc@amadeus.LA.TEK.COM -OR- ...!tektronix!amadeus!karenc