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From: fred@smoke.ARPA (Fred Bunn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: WG-5 ultimatum, is a FIPS standard uninteresting?
Keywords: FIPS,Ada
Message-ID: <8642@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 5 Oct 88 14:20:07 GMT
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Reply-To: fred@brl.arpa (Fred Bunn (TANK) <fred>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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Here at the Army's Ballistic Research Lab we have many mid-sized computers
and a couple of super-computers. To my knowledge none of these has an ADA
compiler. Apparently DOD is mandating ADA for imbedded computers (those
in weapon systems) but for scientific and technical work, there seem to
be little or no push towards ADA. Ditto for accounting/business type
applications.