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From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: programming language names
Summary: future history?
Message-ID: <1991Jan10.205617.27841@ico.isc.com>
Date: 10 Jan 91 20:56:17 GMT
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kinnersley@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bill Kinnersley) writes:
>...Well if it's names of obscure but widely used languages you want, take a
> look at the mumbo jumbo that Ada replaced...
...
> FORTRAN, COBOL, PL/I, HAL/S, TACPOL, CMS-2, CS-4, SPL/1, J3B, J73,
> Algol 60, Algol 68, CORAL 66, Pascal, SIMULA 67, LIS, LTR, RTL/2, Euclid,
> PDL2, PEARL, MORAL and EL-1.

Eh?  "replaced"?  Perhaps "was intended to replace"?  At least four of
those languages still have larger bodies of existing code than Ada...
though Kinnersley's list does tend to illustrate why DoD reacted as they
did.
-- 
Dick Dunn     rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd       Boulder, CO   (303)449-2870
   ...Mr. Natural says, "Use the right tool for the job."