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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: Integer division: Ada wins?
Message-ID: <526@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Fri, 14-Feb-86 08:41:07 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 14 08:41:07 1986
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In article <1970@peora.UUCP>, jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) writes:
> The problem is, as far as the implementation of machines is concerned, Ada
> is likely to be the driving force for the forseeable future -- 

Spoken like a true government contractor.

I'll believe it when I see J. Eric Roskos posting articles using a
netnews written in Ada running an Ada Unix clone on a home computer.

The War Dept. tried to make official TCP/IP specs written in Ada but
they apparently couldn't find anyone who could write correct, working
Ada.  See RFC's 963 and 964.  I think Ada is a great way for
contractors (Perkin-Elmer?) to burn tax money doing useless work.  I
doubt it will influence a lot of instruction sets.
-- 
John Gilmore  {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu   jgilmore@lll-crg.arpa