Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!purdue!decwrl!megatest!djones
From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Making "archaic" languages like C, COBOL illegal
Message-ID: <6740@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: 1 Aug 89 23:18:11 GMT
References: <9693@aw.sei.cmu.edu)
Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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From article <9693@aw.sei.cmu.edu), by mcp@sei.cmu.edu (Mark Paulk):
...
) 
) Did you know that Congressman A. F. Day has introduced legislation that
) 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.
) 

April, eh?  Is there any chance that it is an April Fools' joke?
Please investigate.