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From: billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe,2847,)
Newsgroups: comp.sw.components
Subject: Re: Ada only???
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Date: 10 May 89 18:02:24 GMT
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From article <1844@mas1.mas.UUCP>, by jimb@mas.UUCP (Jim Burke):
> From the descriptions I've read on this new newsgroup, it seems that the
> initial readers/posters are using the term "components" to refer exclusively
> to Ada code ("software IC's").  Is this correct?  

    No, both the definition of the scope of the newsgroup and the
    definition of software components were language-independent.
    Ada was used as an example of an advanced language which provides
    an extremely high level of support for the component writer.


    Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu