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From: emuleomo@accur8.UUCP (Olumide Emuleomo)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Making "archaic" languages like C, COBOL illegal
Keywords: archaic, languages, C, Fortran, Basic, Ada, legislation, laws
Message-ID: <263@accur8.UUCP>
Date: 1 Aug 89 12:08:20 GMT
References: <9693@aw.sei.cmu.edu>
Organization: Accurate Information Systems, Inc.
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> Did you know that Congressman A. F. Day has introduced legislation that
> would make Ada the official computer language of the United States?  This
> etc.... 
> Day's bill establishes civil and criminal penalties for any programmer who
> uses archaic languages like FORTRAN, BASIC, or C.
> 

Big brother is watching you! What next? A legislation to outlaw "unproductive"
single-tasking Operating systems like MS-DOS because they are not cost 
effective?
How about banning JCL?
And what about those of us who can write a single line of ADA code?
What is going to become of us? Maybe I should start training to be a Nurse!
There is a 27% shortage of nurses in the market right now!

Emuleomo O O (emuleomo@accur8@uunet.uu.net)