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From: dsill@NSWC-OAS.arpa (Dave Sill)
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Subject: Re: \"C\" vrs ADA
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Date: Fri, 28-Aug-87 10:24:43 EDT
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From: John Unekis <etn-rad!jru>
>How could I have been so blind. I take back everything I 
>said about her. Ada is the perfect name for a computer 
>language that will be the standard for the U.S. military and
>aerospace contracting industries.

Ha ha, I never thought of it that way :-)
On the appropriateness of names: why did Wirth name his Modula-2
machine after a female demon, Lilith, who supposedly ate children?

Oh, excuse me, there is a another subject I wanted to bring up.
What has all this Ada/COBOL/Babbage/370 stuff got to do with C,
anyway?  Not much.  Let's try to keep our postings a little more
germane to the discussion of the C language.  Before I get a string of
"pot calling the kettle black" messages,  I'll admit I'm guilty of
this myself.  Sometimes it's awfully hard to resist the urge :-)


-Dave