phipps@garth.UUCP (Clay Phipps) (12/01/88)
In article <1975@garth.UUCP> smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan) writes: >I envy all you across the Atlantic. >On this side of the big shining water >we're debating whether C or Fortran is better. My colleague speaketh with tongue in cheek. We are simply following the custom becoming well established in our main-stream politics: choosing between the lesser of 2 evils. It is interesting to ponder the origin of (or force behind) some of the most heavily used languages on this side of the Pond: FORTRAN, COBOL, C, and Ada: Big Blue, the Pentagon, Ma Bell, and the Pentagon, respectively. -- [The foregoing may or may not represent the position, if any, of my employer] Clay Phipps {ingr,pyramid,sri-unix!hplabs}!garth!phipps