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From: meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: WG-5 ultimatum, is a FIPS standard uninteresting?
Keywords: FIPS,Ada
Message-ID: <534@stiatl.UUCP>
Date: 5 Oct 88 14:04:33 GMT
References: <838@cernvax.UUCP> <44400024@hcx2> <140@microsoft.UUCP>
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In article <140@microsoft.UUCP>, bobal@microsoft.UUCP (Bob Allison) writes:
> do we expect new contracts with the U.S. Government to require a FIPS
> Fortran compiler less and less often (and consequently an Ada standard
> more often)?  Under what time scale?  Is it already happening?  Are people
> being forced to bid a project assuming the project will be done in Ada?
> I am not crossposting to comp.lang.ada because I am interested in people
> who would normally use Fortran who might be forced to use Ada.

Well, as far as FHWA & FDOT are concerned (not to mention the state
& local versions), it's only in the last few years that they were willing
to consider anything besides FORTRAN. Even 77 & things like Flecs only
REALLY came much into use after 81 or 82. Assembly language was also still
common then, & still is for on-street micros & such. JHK (whose systems
practice is in Atlanta) was 1 of the consultants who pushed for structured
FORTRAN (77, etc) and then for C. But still, 1/2 of their development
contracts specify FORTRAN, and I have heard nothing of Ada there.
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Miles O'Neal                                 decvax!gatech!stiatl!meo