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From: dharvey@wsccs.UUCP (David Harvey)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: How widespread is Ada now?
Summary: But do they have any choice?
Message-ID: <693@wsccs.UUCP>
Date: 2 Oct 88 09:20:23 GMT
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In article <1039@buengc.BU.EDU>, bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
> I heard a rumor that the Navy doesn't want to bother with the stuff.
> 
> 				--Blair

Yes, they want to work with one of the not less than 4 languages they
already have and no, not one of them is C.  That was why they
started the process in the first place.  And since they were involved in
the selection process of preliminary designs, choice of the winning
design team, and final approval of the end product, what chance do they
have of weaseling out of it now?  For better or worse, they are stuck
with it.  Only another year of compiler refinement and they will have to
start using it in earnest.

dharvey@wsccs
David A Harvey

The only thing you can know for sure
Is that you can't know anything for sure.