[comp.arch] Jovial vs. CMS II

pdbain@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Peter Bain) (02/09/91)

In article <4313@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879) writes:
>>  - Why did(/do) the Feds love it so much?
>      Because having a language standard is so much better than having no
>      standard, even if the language could be improved on.  JOVIAL was
>      never widely used or loved outside the Air Force and their
>      contractors, but within the Air Force, it was the standard language
>      until Ada came along.

Didn't/doesn't the USAF have another standard language by the name of
CMS II?
      -peter

jimm@ima.isc.com (Jim McGrath) (02/11/91)

In article <5555@bwdls58.UUCP> pdbain@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Peter Bain) writes:
>
>Didn't/doesn't the USAF have another standard language by the name of
>CMS II?
>      -peter


I think it was the Navy.  I used CMS-2 on AN-UYK 7s and 20s back in
the mid seventies for a project CSC was doing for the Navy.

Jim