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From: billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 )
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Subject: Re: interesting statistic
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Date: 25 Nov 89 19:59:51 GMT
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From horstman@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Cay Horstmann):
>>> I guess we can conclude that NTT maintained a commitment to Ada in spite of
>>> a five-year lack of production-quality compilers???
>>
>>    Conclusion correct... they were apparently doing MIS applications 
>>    in which the quality of the object code was not very important.
% 
% I guess we therefore can conclude that Ada is perfectly suited for doing
% MIS applications in which the quality of the object code is not very 
% important.

    Quite correct.  Now that production-quality compilers are widely
    available, it is also perfectly suited for an extremely wide range
    of applications, and is being used accordingly.


    Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu