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From: collin@hpindda.HP.COM (Collin Park)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Making "archaic" languages like C, COBOL illegal
Message-ID: <6620005@hpindda.HP.COM>
Date: 1 Aug 89 17:55:54 GMT
References: <9693@aw.sei.cmu.edu>
Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA
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> Did you know that Congressman A. F. Day has introduced legislation that
                                ^^^^^^^^^
	Stands for "April Fools Day"

> 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.e., April 1, 1989.  I note that no state has owned up to
	having elected such a clown....
>
> [stuff deleted]
>
> If you have comments, you may write to:
> 
> The Honorable A. F. Day
> 401 Rayburn Office Building
  ^^^
> Washington, D. C.  04189
                     ^^^^^
	Okay, the room number is 401, uh, 4/1??  And this ZIP code is
	4/1/89??!?  This is not the D.C ZIP code, by the way (the real
	one is 204xx).
> 
> =======
> 
> I would laugh, except there's always the possibility that this bill could
    ^^^^^ 
    Make that "should."

> 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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