gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) (02/14/86)
In article <1970@peora.UUCP>, jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) writes: > The problem is, as far as the implementation of machines is concerned, Ada > is likely to be the driving force for the forseeable future -- Spoken like a true government contractor. I'll believe it when I see J. Eric Roskos posting articles using a netnews written in Ada running an Ada Unix clone on a home computer. The War Dept. tried to make official TCP/IP specs written in Ada but they apparently couldn't find anyone who could write correct, working Ada. See RFC's 963 and 964. I think Ada is a great way for contractors (Perkin-Elmer?) to burn tax money doing useless work. I doubt it will influence a lot of instruction sets. -- John Gilmore {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu jgilmore@lll-crg.arpa