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From: dsill@NSWC-OAS.arpa (Dave Sill)
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Subject: Re: COBOL vrs Ada
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Date: Tue, 25-Aug-87 13:33:47 EDT
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>From: Kent Paul Dolan <xanth!kent>
>The lady, CAPT Grace Murry Hopper, who gave us COBOL is, despite
>Countess Ada, probably the most respected female figure in the
>computing field (can Adele Goldberg be far behind?), which might
>indicate that the language still retains a bit of respect somewhere.

Who is Adele Goldberg?

>...(Couldn't DOD at least have said: "all computer word sizes will be
>powers of two, and all arithmetic will be two's complement"?  After
>all, they are specifying the hardware, too!)...

No, It's not right for the language to dictate the architecture of the
machine on which it runs.  Besides, I suspect the DoD didn't want to
exclude any machines from being able to run Ada.


-Dave Sill
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